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[…] and Mahmoud Zwahre being two great artists). For more Third Worldish cancellation, there’s Naila and Cousin Sa’ad, for […] LikeLike

[…] agree that cancel culture sometimes involves grotesque excess, but so do a lot of things. (The culture of spectator sports, for example…yet consider the […] LikeLike

Kevin Vallier has an interesting blog post on cancel culture at his blog, Reconciled. Check out the post and the blog itself if you haven’t. Vallier’s argument is nicely structured, but isn’t, in my view, sound. The first part goes something like this: For any X, if we cancel X, we (must) reliably know that…

830 women die from pregnancy-related causes on any given day. Most of these deaths are preventable. How can we use the Exemplar framework to identify which countries have been most successful in doing so?

In reply to radgeekdotcom. Don’t look at me–I just own the blog and pay the Premium price for it. You can’t expect me to know how it works. LikeLike

In reply to radgeekdotcom. I find the Crooked Timber hypothesis implausible. Yes, Brennan may have a few readers from among the Crooked Timber folks, but far too few to make them the “you” of the post. Taken as a whole, Crooked Timber is ab…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Thanks to WordPress’s opaque threading policies, it’s now impossible to tell what was being singled out here as the “Good one.” But I assume it was the Neoplatonic One, also known as the Good, the cau…

In reply to radgeekdotcom. Some day, one fine day, I am going to remember how HTML markup of comments works on this here blog. In any case, the remark I had intended to quote above, and reply to, was Irfan saying this: I considered that, but why think …

<> Well, on the one hand it could be the usual sort of empty open letter apostrophe to an audience you’d like to address, whether or not that’s an audience you have or ever have had. Anyway, alternaticely Brennan genuinely has had so…