The Easiest Person to Fool

Lake Huron Shore at Kincardine, Feb 16, 2017 For quite a while now I've been promising that I'd get around to talking about col...

This time we'll be taking a quick look at James C. Scott's book Seeing Like a State, How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Con...

This time we'll be taking a quick look at a book by James C. Scott's book The Art of Not Being Governed, an Anarchist History of ...

In my last post I started a review of Joseph Tainter's book The Collapse of Complex Societies . In that post, we saw Tainter devel...

In a few weeks I'll be starting a series of posts called Political Realities: Collapse Step by Step , looking into how the collapse o...

Sunset on Lake Huron, Dec. 18, 2016, not far from where I live. A while back I did a series of posts entitled A Political Fantasy . The...

I just finished reading Sean Carroll's book "The Big Picture—The Origins of Life, Meaning and the Universe Itself" . A revie...