How to write about Other Places
When I'm not working on my current project (I suspect that "WTF Do Clients Really Do With Scenarios?" won't make the cut at a peer-reviewed journal, so I
Off to Cambridge (or rather, CAMBRIDGE !!! ZOMG)
I've hesitated to write anything about this, mainly because I haven't really believed my good fortune, but now that the paperwork is taken care of and we're on
Living history: on the politics of reenactment
An Ohio congressional candidate turns out to have been a Nazi reenactor, though he claims he only did it as "a father-son bonding thing." (WTF)? I grew up
Ideas have consequences…
...even when they're published "in a little-read journal," as Ezra Klein points out. He's talking about Elizabeth Warren's 2007 article proposing a Financial Products Safety Commission-- which she
My talk in Malaysia
I've put a copy of my Malaysia talk, which I delivered last week, up on Slide Share. The version below shows you the slides themselves, but not the
If you think history doesn’t matter
This observation from The League of Ordinary Gentlemen about the expert witnesses in Perry: in the findings of fact Judge Walker ended up relying almost exclusively on the
Expecto Patronas Twin Towers
I'm in a taxi that's barreling down the freeway to KLIA, and will get to the airport really early and have lots of time to explore and take
Memory arts and mindware
Ruth Evans takes an historical perspective on Andy Clark's natural-born cyborgs argument, and that "human cognition is not just embodied but embedded: not mind in body, but both
Giving away books
I have a bunch of books-- probably a couple hundred-- from my professional/scholarly collection that I want to give away. Most are history (with an emphasis on European
Life of the mind, Google Scholar edition
I noticed a traffic spike on the blog, thanks to Lexi Lord's essay on post-academic life in the recent Chronicle of Higher Education (thanks, Lexi!). She talks about