Henry Farrell, former denizen of UCD (now Crooked Timber), takes Mickey Kaus‘s slot against Mickey’s video diavlog partner Bob Wright. Interesting stuff on net roots. Wright asks some good questions about the blogosphere’s adherence to certain power laws, following Henry’s piece in the Boston Review. Get this paradox on net roots too. Great power of blogs: but power to do what exactly?
Ireland is in the middle of a boom – a running boom. Chances are, even if you have never run a step yourself (apart from some painful P.E. classes many moons ago), someone you know has taken up running over the last little while. Road races in Northern Ireland and in the Republic have seen [...] read our review »
A silly media row about racism just had to figure in the riots’ post mortem. Was the Tudor history expert David Starkey racist on Newsnight when he said: The whites have become black. A particular sort of violent, destructive, nihilistic, gangster culture has become the fashion. And black and white, boy and girl, operate in [...] read our review »