Razib: Your son's drawing: My wife, whose credentials as a psychologist I have explained to you, thought it was incredibly sophisticated for a child of any age. The child has real talent that should be nurtured and encouraged.
Gonna read "Otherlands" by Halliday, "Why We Fight," "a brief history of equality" by Picketty, "overreach" (Russian war) "American midnight." "Slouching towards utopia" "not one inch" (Russia/NATO), "Lincoln's God"
Read "of boys and men" "status and culture" "the rise of the new puritans" "the shortest history of democracy" "the chaos machine." I'd give all of em about a 3/5... readable but not amazing.
Razib: I know the prof who wrote the introduction to the current edition of Wedgwood. I have an interesting story about him to share with you privately. We need to talk next week anyway.
Diarmaid MacCulloch. I think it is a good general history, but I am not happy with the general state of scholarship about the Reformation. I think too much attention is paid to theological and doctrinal issues which should be seen as a continuous evolution and not enough attention to the politics both of the secular world, in particular the Holy Roman Empire, but also of the Church and its internal political convulsions that went back to the beginning of the 14th century.
Your link for "The genomic footprint of social stratification in admixing American populations" is actually a duplicate of the one for the previous study listed.
McCullough is great, but I did not understand his argument if there was one of why criticisms of practices (indulgences/corruption) or Governance (Henry V) led to changes in doctrine, faith/works adults/infant baptism, sacraments. Entropy is an explanation but that's an emergent property. I wanted to see the grinding of the gears.
Razib: Your son's drawing: My wife, whose credentials as a psychologist I have explained to you, thought it was incredibly sophisticated for a child of any age. The child has real talent that should be nurtured and encouraged.
Gonna read "Otherlands" by Halliday, "Why We Fight," "a brief history of equality" by Picketty, "overreach" (Russian war) "American midnight." "Slouching towards utopia" "not one inch" (Russia/NATO), "Lincoln's God"
Read "of boys and men" "status and culture" "the rise of the new puritans" "the shortest history of democracy" "the chaos machine." I'd give all of em about a 3/5... readable but not amazing.
History of the Thirty Years War In addition to Wedgwood, "The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy" by Peter H. Wilson https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674062310/geneexpressio-20
Razib: I know the prof who wrote the introduction to the current edition of Wedgwood. I have an interesting story about him to share with you privately. We need to talk next week anyway.
Diarmaid MacCulloch. I think it is a good general history, but I am not happy with the general state of scholarship about the Reformation. I think too much attention is paid to theological and doctrinal issues which should be seen as a continuous evolution and not enough attention to the politics both of the secular world, in particular the Holy Roman Empire, but also of the Church and its internal political convulsions that went back to the beginning of the 14th century.
<i>Though Luther owns pride of place as the first protester against the old order</i>
Wycliffe? Hus?
Nice artwork. The kid may go into STEAM and not STEM?
What’s the subscribe button on your Twitter account about?
Your link for "The genomic footprint of social stratification in admixing American populations" is actually a duplicate of the one for the previous study listed.
McCullough is great, but I did not understand his argument if there was one of why criticisms of practices (indulgences/corruption) or Governance (Henry V) led to changes in doctrine, faith/works adults/infant baptism, sacraments. Entropy is an explanation but that's an emergent property. I wanted to see the grinding of the gears.