![]() ![]() To use an example close to home: Many professors cannot easily switch jobs and duplicate their current working conditions, nor can they easily demand and receive offsetting raises. ![]() One obvious loser from higher inflation is someone with a tenured job, either de facto or de jure. Yet there is also a large set of distributional effects through wages, and those effects might prove more congenial to conservative values. On the one hand, inflation helps debtors, and the debtor class is often relatively poor. It’s also worth asking which groups are most hurt by inflation, and which least. Still bad, yes, but it has a few upsides, here is one part from my Bloomberg column: Plus quite a few others that I don’t feel the need to tell you about… There is Peter Baldwin’s Athena Unbound: Why and How Scholarly Knowledge Should be Free for All.Īnd Nicolas Spencer, Magisteria: The Entangled Histories of Science and Religion.Īshoka Mody has published the quite pessimistic India is Broken: A People Betrayed, Independence to Today. Once you move past their immediate (and extreme) fan bases, both are in fact considerably underrated. You do need to be able to stomach sentences such as: “Do the three main versions of Christianity not form a kind of Hegelian triad?” (SZ) In any case, the smartness of the authors makes it worthwhile. Slavoj Žižek and John Milbank, The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? How Hegelian should our understanding of Christ be? The book is written as a confrontational dialogue, and to its benefit. Argues that ethnic divisions should be made less rather than more focal: “When I visited Rwanda, I asked Rwandans of various backgrounds whether they thought distinguishing people by race or ethnicity ever helped anyone in their country.” An effective presentation of facts, though only one side of the story and it does not take sufficiently seriously the question of how tolerant environments ever get established in the first place (hint: it is through a certain amount of identity politics…what exactly is an Englishman anyway?).ģ. Jens Heycke, Out of the Melting Pot, Into the Fire: Multiculturalism and the World’s Past and America’s Future. When will her suicide book be published in English?Ģ. I give this one an A/A+, mostly emotional drama and narrative, I can’t tell you more without spoilers. A Turkish novella, originally published in 1980, newly translated into English and the first English-language book by her. ![]()
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