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(Though he doesn't get into the mastery-of-jargon-as-cultural-capital point here, I know he's aware of it.)
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Tim is entirely right here.]]></description>
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    <title>Good Enough: Hindsight Towards a Rethinking on Climate Activism - by Timothy Burke - Eight by Seven</title>
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The liberal answer was carbon pricing.  That is, dealing with a commons problem (because climate change _is_ a commons problem) by a market mechanism.  The cap-and-trade version of carbon pricing is even about creating (and enforcing) property rights.  Liberalism had the conceptual resources for formulating a perfectly good solution to the climate-change problem.  Indeed, strong global carbon pricing would be a much better, because more direct and comprehensive, solution to the climate problem than whatever we're going to blunder into.  (We should still price carbon, as soon as we can.)  The place where liberalism genuinely has trouble isn't conceiving of a good solution, it's assembling the political forces which will make that solution happen.  (This is related to other points he makes in his essay.)]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The bits about "compliance" are especially interesting.  Also: one can imagine a lot of people who were all "Networks, not hierarchies!" back in the 1980s and 1990s going "Not like that!"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["As always, Matthew Yglesias is a great portrait of what happens when a well-meaning kid with a good education settles down to become a technocratic barnacle on some encrusted rock. You get a clear picture from reading him of what technocrats think they’re doing, and why the concept of the incentive, disembedded out of economics, has become the technocrat’s version of the Nicene Creed. Incentive, in their world, is a compressed way of saying, “I am smarter than you are, but you unfortunately have just enough power to get in my way if I try to do you what I think is best for you, so I’m going to try to trick you into doing what I think you should do.” Incentive is also the sound of a dumb chortle from someone who thinks he’s just gotten a free lunch. Not only does the magic of incentive get the people who didn’t marinate in the think-tank juices to do what their betters deem they ought, it’s a way to make them pay for doing it. Incentive is also a promise to the powerful and the interested that there will be a way to let them out of anything they really don’t like, as long they’re willing to pay a modest premium to opt out of obligations that others can’t escape."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["This is why seeing this happen to, in, because of the United States is especially painful. Not because we have been in our international behavior a genuine beacon of restraint and openness at some point in the past, but because one of the distinctive elements the United States could boast of in its political culture is so severely threatened. The U.S. Constitution proposes two ideas in particular: that the actions of governmental institutions draw not just from the consent but the participation of the people, and that government should never, ever be able to claim power and simply say, “Trust us”. The people who are parsing the petty legalisms of the latest revelations, or assuring us that no real authoritarianism has yet happened, are blind to the fundamental spirit of this moment. That spirit, whether or not it violates the language of a specific statute or provision, violates the fundamental idea of American government. And it violates the fundamental ethos of political personhood that has been built step by agonizing step over three hundred years of struggle by this people and by allied peoples all around this Earth. And for what? For practices that can never deliver what they promise and spew more chaos and misrule the more extravagantly they promise. For a pervasive rewriting of our political DNA that tells us we might as well do nothing and tells us we should just trust that the people who know will do the right thing–not that “the right thing” is any longer our business to be concerned with. Having somebody read your mail is a trivial harm compared to all that."]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["My rephrasing of Thomas Friedman’s column today:"

--- Too good to excerpt.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2012-09-27T01:56:57+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:date>2012-08-26T20:29:41+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Not sure this is true.  I have to say I often don't know how hard my assignments will be until after I give them.]]></description>
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    <title>Our Mamluks | Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-24T16:52:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2012/08/24/our-mamluks/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Historians with a long view might recognize the evolving contours of this situation. It rarely turns out well when a society with imperial commitments makes heavy use of an increasingly professionalized, socially detached military with a warrior ethos and a high degree of skill who feel that their suffering is unappreciated and unrewarded. It is for that reason alone that I sometimes wonder if the most progressive answer to our current wars would be to revive the draft, with absolutely zero exemptions from service."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2012/07/30/hacker-job/">
    <title>Hacker Job | Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2012-07-31T01:11:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2012/07/30/hacker-job/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[If the editorial is at all as Tim describes it, then it really is a prize specimen of folly.  (If nothing else, saying that we should teach statistics and algorithms _instead of_ algebra is insane.)]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2012-03-28T04:30:08+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>On How Not to be Foxhog College | Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-22T16:58:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2012/02/22/on-how-not-to-be-foxhog-college/</link>
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    <title>There Is Nothing You Possess That Power Cannot Take Away | Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-21T18:16:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2012/01/18/there-is-nothing-you-possess-that-power-cannot-take-away/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The problem with a rights-based liberalism is precisely that it is not and never can be the end of history, that it is never secure or stable, that every liberty claimed through toil and protest, no matter how acclaimed and cherished and generative, is one day away from the firing line when some powerful interest decides that some right or practice is inconvenient.

"It doesn’t even matter if the end of a right, a freedom, a possibility will ultimately hurt that powerful interest. The contemporary businesses who have registered a powerful stake in exceptionally restrictive monopolies over intellectual property have themselves been enormous beneficiaries of a conception of the public domain as a fundamental and irreversible right of a free society. No matter: they would now see it ended. Better to kill the future than live in a present where you can only have two Ferraris in the driveway."]]></description>
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    <title>The Work of Criticism | Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-21T00:48:06+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2012/01/20/the-work-of-criticism-2/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Literature professors often encounter and complain about the student who arrives in their classes with a professed ‘love of literature’. We sometimes come to see our job as grimly breaking those blithe spirits on the wheel of the hard labor of criticism and dismissing them from our company when they refuse to come into the quarry and break stone."  (Why do I like that sentence?  The metaphors are horribly mixed.)]]></description>
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    <title>Some Small Ideas About Big Ideas | Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-16T12:41:58+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2011/08/15/some-small-ideas-about-big-ideas/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Equally to the point, a lot of what Gabler describes as Big Ideas turn out to have been actively wrong or at least misleading in the wrong hands, and one of the reasons is not the insights and findings of their initial creators but the seductive refashionings of later popularizers. The process that made Big Ideas into two or three-sentence applause lines that can be rattled off in succession in an op-ed in the New York Times is often what allowed them to turn into ideology and dogma.
If the informationally overloaded present is resistant to Big Ideas, maybe that’s not because we’re too busy watching YouTube videos of Jennifer Aniston playing with a cat. Maybe it’s because we’re acquiring an immune system resistance to the salesmanship of middlebrow middlemen trying to extract saleable Big Ideas from the raw material of knowledge production."  (That last seems more like a hope to me than a real observation.)
]]></description>
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    <title>What’s Not in a Datamine | Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2011-08-11T13:41:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2011/08/10/whats-not-in-a-datamine/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>data_mining text_mining humanities burke.timothy bad_data_analysis to_teach:data-mining</dc:subject>
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    <title>On the Bubble « Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2011-05-08T19:33:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2011/05/03/on-the-bubble/</link>
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    <dc:date>2011-02-02T03:58:51+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["There is a reason that critics did stop making “is this great?” the first and last question of literary analysis (Edmundson is not wrong to say that this problem has been sidelined in cultural criticism, and this does indeed raise problems, as the concept of good and bad work is indispensible). The reason is that it’s a really hard philosophical problem that was made to seem easier through slight-of-hand when the answer was conflated with the preferences and tastes of a fairly narrow social class that held itself aloof from a wider public... I’d welcome an investigation of what makes some cultural works great and others ordinary or bad that was consciously intended to provide a critical toolkit to other readers and critics. ... Not a canon, but the foundation for making a canon...." - A canon foundry, as it were.
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    <dc:date>2010-11-10T02:19:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2010/11/09/what-ifs-and-might-have-beens-draft-syllabus/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>history causality counterfactuals courses burke.timothy</dc:subject>
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    <dc:date>2010-09-20T02:58:48+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2010/09/17/a-lord-byron-in-every-cyberpot/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["digital media [have enabled] the massification of self-performance, of crafting a self through the publication of text and image. ... [Not] a brave new world of spectacularly predatory frauds and newly vulnerable victims ... everyman a Lord Byron or George Eliot, if he or she wants to be. The crafting of gentler fictions of selfhood, performative shadings and experiments of our everyday personalities, through disseminated publication, is now a widely distributed possibility.
...  practice which was previously restricted to a small cultural elite. ... If everyone can make a literary self ...  then crafting a memorably exaggerated literary self like Norman Mailer or Mark Twain or Jonathan Franzen is not in itself anything remarkable. If millions are doing it, most ... will be banal, confused or generic, but there will be enough [who do it well] to demonstrate that past literary lives were less ,,, extraordinary in their inventions than their celebrants have so often proclaimed."
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    <dc:date>2010-04-14T18:05:57+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2010/02/01/is-our-students-learning/">
    <title>Is Our Students Learning? « Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2010-02-02T01:49:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2010/02/01/is-our-students-learning/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["what I worry about when I hear that there are too many “relativists” around: that the people complaining the most about that supposed surplus are the most supremely relativistic folks you might ever imagine encountering."
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<dc:subject>funny:malicious us_politics utter_stupidity running_dogs_of_reaction burke.timothy relativism</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2010/01/19/hester-prynne-schmester-prynne-or-sarah-palins-ressentiment-clubhouse/">
    <title>Hester Prynne, Schmester Prynne, or Sarah Palin’s Ressentiment Clubhouse « Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2010-01-25T21:54:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2010/01/19/hester-prynne-schmester-prynne-or-sarah-palins-ressentiment-clubhouse/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Not a group of tags I ever expected to have occasion to type.
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<dc:subject>cultural_literacy inequality ressentiment class_struggles_in_america education academia cultural_capital burke.timothy palin.sarah bourdieu.pierre</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2009/10/22/the-skilled-presentation-of-self-in-everyday-life/">
    <title>The (Skilled) Presentation of Self in Everyday Life « Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2009-10-22T19:21:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2009/10/22/the-skilled-presentation-of-self-in-everyday-life/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>presentation_of_self rhetorical_self-fashioning education liberal_arts burke.timothy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2009/08/24/the-limits-to-shill/">
    <title>The Limits to Shill « Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2009-08-25T17:20:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/2009/08/24/the-limits-to-shill/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Now, how _do_ I teach the 2nd part in 350?
]]></description>
<dc:subject>text_mining sentiment_analysis deceiving_us_has_become_an_industrial_process to_teach:data-mining human_terrain_system anthropology the_continuing_crises burke.timothy public_relations</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=744">
    <title>Journalism, Civil Society and 21st Century Reportage « Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2009-03-10T17:36:41+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=744</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>journalism blogging internet why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps burke.timothy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=733">
    <title>Oh the Humanities « Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-28T07:00:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=733</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>humanities academia burke.timothy</dc:subject>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=717">
    <title>Different Cliffs, Different Bottoms, Different Parachutes « Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-12T03:39:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=717</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The remarks about chain bookstores are astute.  But I am not sure about the incentives to change.  E.g., I don't think there's a hardware store other than Home Depot in a five mile radius of my house.  If another one opened, the chain has the resources (by cross-subsidization) to temporarily price it out of the market...
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<dc:subject>consumerism shopping whats_gone_wrong_with_america burke.timothy market_failures_in_everything</dc:subject>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=699">
    <title>The Embarassment of Paratext, the Insufficiency of Culture « Easily Distracted</title>
    <dc:date>2009-02-09T14:28:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=699</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tim Burke on the NY Times pretending that its readers are clueless about popular culture.  Good, as usual.  But this bit bugs me: "Of course, there is always more to say about the content of expressive culture. Cowboy-and-indian or zombie, any theme or story or genre, has deeper roots, deeper meanings" --- why assume this?  I won't toot my own horn, but I will refer, again, to S. Lieberson's brilliant book on fashions, especially fashions in names.  The content of the zombie apocalypse mythology might be as irrelevant to its success as their sounds and associations have been to the rise of "Madison" and "Abigail".
]]></description>
<dc:subject>epidemiology_of_representations interpretation why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps burke.timothy zombies explanation_by_meaning</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:319fcca7efdb/</dc:identifier>
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</item>
<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=655">
    <title>Easily Distracted » Gaze Into the Crystal Ball</title>
    <dc:date>2008-10-09T01:34:50+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=655</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One of my private pleasures as a historian is reading old newspapers in sequence just to see pundits and prognosticators try to guess what is coming next. They almost invariably fail badly, often because they cannot imagine either just how terrible the near-future will become or how wonderful and strange some of the developments just around the corner are going to be."
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<dc:subject>mortgage_crisis history uses_of_the_past futurology burke.timothy</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:d6a061685a65/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=649">
    <title>Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » Trade Secret of Teachers</title>
    <dc:date>2008-09-26T00:54:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=649</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[LolPalin: "interactional expertise --- I hazn't it"
]]></description>
<dc:subject>bluffing interactional_expertise teaching burke.timothy palin.sarah</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=601">
    <title>Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » Big Pharma, Big Wonkery</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-28T01:06:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=601</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>social_life_of_the_mind statistics bad_science bad_data_analysis burke.timothy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=574">
    <title>Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » Neither Victims Nor Torturers</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-08T03:21:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=574</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["If you had asked me in 1998 what I thought the consequences would be if the United States government was revealed in public to have officially sanctioned torture ... I would have said that this revelation would be an enormous scandal with catastrophic po
]]></description>
<dc:subject>our_national_shame torture the_continuing_crises decline_of_American_character burke.timothy moral_depravity</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=592">
    <title>Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » Pitstop</title>
    <dc:date>2008-06-05T02:13:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=592</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics inequality burke.timothy whats_gone_wrong_with_america via:orzelc</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=537">
    <title>Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » From the Desk of HRC</title>
    <dc:date>2008-03-18T04:37:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=537</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Dear White Pennsylvanians..."
]]></description>
<dc:subject>funny:sad us_politics the_american_dilemma obama.barack burke.timothy clinton.hillary</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=528">
    <title>Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » “We’re Americans First”</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-26T22:20:10+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=528</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Loud and prolonged applause.
]]></description>
<dc:subject>our_decrepit_institutions the_continuing_crises defenses_of_liberalism creeping_authoritarianism decline_of_American_character us_politics bureaucracy burke.timothy corruption cronyism lustration institutions</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:b4513d562eb9/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=521">
    <title>Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » The Ecosystem of Asychronicity</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-15T14:03:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=521</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>computer_networks_as_provinces_of_the_commonwealth_of_letters burke.timothy</dc:subject>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:9dfd931f6af9/</dc:identifier>
<taxo:topics><rdf:Bag>	<rdf:li rdf:resource="https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/t:computer_networks_as_provinces_of_the_commonwealth_of_letters"/>
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<item rdf:about="http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=518">
    <title>Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » One-A-Day: Oona Strathern, A Brief History of the Future</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-07T21:26:40+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=518</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Pining for "kind of intellectual history recognizes that any contemporary idea has junk DNA in its genes, has unacknowledged ancestral branches full of bastards and incest, that its evolutionary line is a bush and not a spine"
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    <title>Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » One-A-Day: David Weinberger, Everything is Miscellaneous</title>
    <dc:date>2008-02-01T05:10:32+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=512</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Timothy Burke saves me from reading a book.  Thank, Tim!
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    <title>Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » Now You Know, and Knowing Is Half the Battle</title>
    <dc:date>2008-01-24T22:52:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=507</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>computer_networks_as_provinces_of_the_commonwealth_of_letters moral_panic cultural_criticism why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_press_corps burke.timothy</dc:subject>
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    <title>Crooked Timber » » Robust Action in the Topkapi Palace</title>
    <dc:date>2008-01-18T13:52:29+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Henry Farrell on Brad DeLong on Timothy Burke on Dick Cheney, as viewed through John Padgett and Christopher Ansell on Cosimo de Medici.
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    <title>Easily Distracted » One-A-Day: John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War: A New History</title>
    <dc:date>2008-01-17T12:38:59+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=486</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>20th_century_history cold_war ussr america gaddis.john_lewis burke.timothy bureaucracy unintended_consequences historiography</dc:subject>
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    <title>Do the Cossacks Work for the Czar? [Brad DeLong]</title>
    <dc:date>2008-01-17T12:38:05+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » One-a-Day: Bjorn Lomborg, Cool It</title>
    <dc:date>2008-01-05T01:16:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=485</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["even when I have a notional openness to what he’s trying to say, the guy basically comes off like a used-car salesman"
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    <title>Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » Future Special Constitutional Provisions, Dershowitz-Style</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-08T21:23:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://weblogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/?p=454</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[" If we’re going to start doing this, let’s add special statutory provisions for what the President is empowered to do in case of attack by extraterrestrials, in the case that supervillains seize NORAD, or in the case that intelligent Nazi gorillas ar
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    <title>Easily Distracted » Blog Archive » Beyond Hackery</title>
    <dc:date>2007-11-03T14:58:02+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tim's post depresses me for the following reason: I entered academia as a student when arguing about political correctness was just starting, and we are still doing it almost 20 years later, and after reading him I have this glum sense that we will still
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<item rdf:about="http://www.theminnesotareview.org/journal/ns67/burke_timothy_1.shtml">
    <title>ns 67 (Fall 2006) // the minnesota review</title>
    <dc:date>2007-10-12T15:37:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.theminnesotareview.org/journal/ns67/burke_timothy_1.shtml</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>burke.timothy defenses_of_academic_freedom to:blog</dc:subject>
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