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    <title>The Median Voter Theorem is a Clarity Trap</title>
    <dc:date>2026-02-17T19:06:31+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- cf. [https://bactra.org/weblog/books-i-will-not-write.html], under "Logic Is a Pretty Flower That Smells Bad"]]></description>
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    <title>Opinion | Europe Has a Bazooka. Time to Use It. - The New York Times</title>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Why oh why is this illustrated with an EU-themed _anvil_, rather than a bazooka?!?]]></description>
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--- Shorter Farrell & Newman: "you have no understanding of the consequences of what you do oh and one more thing you aren’t going to like what comes after America".]]></description>
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    <title>The Map is Eating the Territory: The Political Economy of AI</title>
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    <link>https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-political-economy-of-ai</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Last tag is "to link to, in the part of the syllabus where I explain what we will not cover"]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- I like this (unsurprisingly), but this gives me pause as a definition:

"Building on Dewey, we define a public as an evolving, living relationship between the people who collectively constitute it, and the feedback loops (technologically mediated or otherwise) that allow them to understand themselves as a collective and act accordingly."

How do I distinguish an "evolving, living relationship" from some other sort of relationship?  (Do they really mean "relationship", or would "combination of" or "complex of" be better?)

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    <dc:date>2025-08-05T13:06:20+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-same-old-fantasies-behind-ai-and-new-technology</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A review of Adam Becker, “More Everything Forever: AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley’s Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity” (Basic Books, 2025)."

--- I need to read Becker's book...]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2025-08-05T13:05:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:date>2025-07-28T13:59:56+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-rich-are-not-like-you-and-me</link>
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    <dc:date>2025-07-28T13:59:26+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-with-henry-farrell</link>
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    <title>We need to escape the Gernsback Continuum</title>
    <dc:date>2025-07-02T14:58:09+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/we-need-to-escape-the-gernsback-continuum</link>
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    <title>AI as Governance | Annual Reviews</title>
    <dc:date>2025-06-20T19:38:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-polisci-040723-013245</link>
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    <title>The Management Singularity - by Henry Farrell</title>
    <dc:date>2025-04-06T13:28:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-management-singularity</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adt9819">
    <title>Large AI models are cultural and social technologies | Science</title>
    <dc:date>2025-03-14T11:56:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adt9819</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Debates about artificial intelligence (AI) tend to revolve around whether large models are intelligent, autonomous agents. Some AI researchers and commentators speculate that we are on the cusp of creating agents with artificial general intelligence (AGI), a prospect anticipated with both elation and anxiety. There have also been extensive conversations about cultural and social consequences of large models, orbiting around two foci: immediate effects of these systems as they are currently used, and hypothetical futures when these systems turn into AGI agents—perhaps even superintelligent AGI agents. But this discourse about large models as intelligent agents is fundamentally misconceived. Combining ideas from social and behavioral sciences with computer science can help us to understand AI systems more accurately. Large models should not be viewed primarily as intelligent agents but as a new kind of cultural and social technology, allowing humans to take advantage of information other humans have accumulated."

--- Henry's blog post, with links to the ungated next-to-final versions (yes, we fixed the bibliography): [https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/large-ai-models-are-cultural-and]]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis">
    <title>We're getting the social media crisis wrong</title>
    <dc:date>2025-01-09T15:05:51+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.programmablemutter.com/p/were-getting-the-social-media-crisis</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- I think HF is mostly on target here (it'd be surprising if I didn't), but I think could be improved on.
(1) The distribution of output (# of posts) etc. over users is strongly right-skewed.  Even if everyone's content is equally engaging, and equally likely to be encountered, this will lead to a small minority having a really disproportionate impact on what people perceive in their feeds.
(2) Connectivity is _also_ strongly right-skewed.  This is somewhat endogenous to algorithmic choices [https://kieranhealy.org/files/drafts/performativity.pdf] but not entirely.)
(3) Volume of output, and connectivity, are at the very least not _negatively_ associated.  (I'd be astonished if they're not positively associated but I can't immediately lay hands on relevant figures.)
(4) People who write a lot are _weird_.  As a sub-population, they are, let us say, enriched for those who are obsessed with niche interests.  This of course continues HF's analogy to porn; "Proof is left as an exercise for the reader's killfile", as we used to say on Usenet.
(Someone sufficiently flame-proof could make a genuinely valuable study of this point by scraping the various fora for written erotica and doing automated content analysis.  I'd bet good money that the right tail of prolificness is dominated by authors with _very_ niche interests.  But I could not, in good conscience, advise anyone to actually do this study, since it'd be too cancellable from too many directions at once.)
(5) Consequence: even if the owners of the systems didn't put their thumbs on the scales, what people see in their feeds would tend to reflect the pre-occupations of a comparatively small number of weirdos.  HF's points about distorted collective understandings follow.
--- This conclusion could be avoided, maybe, if what those prolific weirdos wrote about tended to be a matter of deep indifference to almost everyone else.  I'd contend that in a world of hate-following, outrage-bait and lolcows, that's not very plausible.

--- Slightly elaborated: [http://bactra.org/weblog/inherent-distortion.html]]]></description>
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    <title>Platforms, Polarization and Democracy — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2024-02-27T02:31:00+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://crookedtimber.org/2024/02/21/52438/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- Feels a bit weird to have a response-to-critics before the article itself is out, but such is our world.]]></description>
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    <title>How the Battle of the Sexes sheds light on the battle of the sexes — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2024-02-18T05:04:39+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://crookedtimber.org/2024/02/12/how-the-battle-of-the-sexes-sheds-light-on-the-battle-of-the-sexes/</link>
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    <dc:date>2023-06-15T19:22:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/henry-farrell-philip-k-dick-and-fake-humans/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- One of Henry's best, inexplicably never bookmarked here before, despite inspiring a tag.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.amacad.org/publication/moral-economy-high-tech-modernism">
    <title>The Moral Economy of High-Tech Modernism | American Academy of Arts and Sciences</title>
    <dc:date>2023-03-07T16:04:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.amacad.org/publication/moral-economy-high-tech-modernism</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["At the end of the day, the relationship between high modernism and high-tech modernism is a struggle between two elites: a new elite of coders, who claim to mediate the wisdom of crowds, and an older elite who based their claims to legitimacy on specialized professional, scientific, or bureaucratic knowledge.32 Both elites draw on rhetorical resources to justify their positions; neither is disinterested.
"The robust offense and disbelief that many people feel about algorithmic judgments suggests that the old high modernist moral political economy, faults and all, is not quite dead. The new moral political economy that will replace it has not yet matured, but is being bred from within. Articulated by technologists and their financial backers, it feeds in a kind of matriphagy on the enfeebled body (and the critique) of its progenitor. Just as high modernist bureaucracies did before, high-tech modernist tools and their designers categorize and order things, people, and situations. But they do so in distinctive ways. By embedding surveillance into everything, they have made us stop worrying about it, and perhaps even come to love it.33 By producing incomprehensible bespoke categorizations, they have made it harder for people to identify their common fate. By relying on opaque and automated feedback loops, they have reshaped the possible pathways to political reaction and resistance. By increasing the efficiency of online coordination, they have made mobilization more emotional, ad hoc, and collectively unstable. And by insisting on market fairness and the wisdom of crowds as organizing social concepts, they have fundamentally transformed our moral intuitions about authority, truth, objectivity, and deservingness."

--- Now add in HF's thoughts from "Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans", and the fact that the emergent behavior of these systems is opaque to their designers and operators...]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2023-01-06T02:33:25+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://crookedtimber.org/2023/01/03/skepticism-and-human-reason/</link>
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    <title>Tornado Cash Is Not Free Speech. It’s a Golem - Lawfare</title>
    <dc:date>2022-12-15T06:07:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.lawfareblog.com/tornado-cash-not-free-speech-its-golem</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>distributed_systems autonomous_technics golems kith_and_kin farrell.henry have_read</dc:subject>
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    <title>The democratic theory of “A Half-Built Garden” — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2022-09-15T14:25:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://crookedtimber.org/2022/09/07/the-democratic-theory-of-a-half-built-garden/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- I hadn't realized Emrys had a new book out.
--- I have always thought bioregionalism a very silly proposal for social organization.  [Ob1990sBook: Martin Lewis, _Green Delusions_.) Having bioregionalism be a response to a _global climate crisis_ is, pardon the expression, galaxy-brained.  But R.E. is smart so I suspect she's thought about that.)]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2022-08-31T21:56:27+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/spirals-delusion-artificial-intelligence-decision-making</link>
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    <title>Analytical Democratic Theory: A Microfoundational Approach | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core</title>
    <dc:date>2022-08-04T14:15:33+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/analytical-democratic-theory-a-microfoundational-approach/739A9A928A99A47994E4585059B03398</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["A prominent and publicly influential literature challenges the quality of democratic decision making, drawing on political science findings with specific claims about the ubiquity of cognitive bias to lament citizens’ incompetence. A competing literature in democratic theory defends the wisdom of crowds, drawing on a cluster of models in support of the capacity of ordinary citizens to produce correct outcomes. In this Letter, we draw on recent findings in psychology to demonstrate that the former literature is based on outdated and erroneous claims and that the latter is overly sanguine about the circumstances that yield reliable collective decision making. By contrast, “interactionist” scholarship shows how individual-level biases are not devastating for group problem solving, given appropriate conditions. This provides possible microfoundations for a broader research agenda similar to that implemented by Elinor Ostrom and her colleagues on common-good provision, investigating how different group structures are associated with both success and failure in democratic decision making. This agenda would have implications for both democratic theory and democratic practice."

--- I am very happy to see this loosed upon the world.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2022-06-28T17:48:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://twitter.com/henryfarrell/status/1541802078175117313</link>
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    <title>Weak links in finance and supply chains are easily weaponized</title>
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    <link>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01254-5</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[--- As I told Henry, I am profoundly glad there will never be a global crisis calling for expertise in information-theoretic limits to prediction.  (We are not actually living in a Stanislaw Lem novel.)]]></description>
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    <title>Democracy as a knowledge system 0.2.docx</title>
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    <dc:date>2022-04-21T14:09:09+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>The Future Finds Its Own Uses for Things — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2021-11-15T16:35:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://crookedtimber.org/2021/11/15/the-future-finds-its-own-use-for-things/</link>
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    <title>Rechanneling Beliefs: How Information Flows Hinder or Help American Democracy</title>
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    <title>Digital Technology and Democratic Theory, Bernholz, Landemore, Reich</title>
    <dc:date>2021-04-03T00:51:43+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/D/bo68657177</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over—and upending—nearly every aspect of life. Work and leisure, family and friendship, community and citizenship have all been modified by now-ubiquitous digital tools and platforms. Digital Technology and Democratic Theory looks closely at one significant facet of our rapidly evolving digital lives: how technology is radically changing our lives as citizens and participants in democratic governments.
"To understand these transformations, this book brings together contributions by scholars from multiple disciplines to wrestle with the question of how digital technologies shape, reshape, and affect fundamental questions about democracy and democratic theory. As expectations have whiplashed—from Twitter optimism in the wake of the Arab Spring to Facebook pessimism in the wake of the 2016 US election—the time is ripe for a more sober and long-term assessment. How should we take stock of digital technologies and their promise and peril for reshaping democratic societies and institutions? To answer, this volume broaches the most pressing technological changes and issues facing democracy as a philosophy and an institution."]]></description>
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    <title>Henry Farrell on Twitter</title>
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    <link>https://twitter.com/henryfarrell/status/1350449673107079168</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["When you’re even semi-prolific, your past online writings become a memory palace - corridors of thought that you recognize, old ideas that you’ve forgotten and are now new to you, all governed by some dimly visible architectural principle that now somehow seems external to you."

--- Not just online writings, but, yes, this is exactly right, and beautifully put.]]></description>
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    <title>Cynical election-fraud ploys aren't harmless - The Washington Post</title>
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    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/a-cynical-ploy-like-hawley-and-cruzs-looks-harmless-until-it-isnt/2021/01/07/9ce6d10e-5091-11eb-b96e-0e54447b23a1_story.html</link>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/opinion/trump-republicans-election-2020.html">
    <title>Opinion | What Makes Trump’s Subversion Efforts So Alarming? His Collaborators - The New York Times</title>
    <dc:date>2020-11-24T15:04:50+00:00</dc:date>
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    <title>In praise of negativity — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2020-07-24T18:55:06+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Too good to excerpt.]]></description>
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    <title>“Public” choice — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-12T14:43:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://crookedtimber.org/2020/05/12/public-choice/#more-47459</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[In which Henry is patient with idiots.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="https://fivebooks.com/best-books/politics-of-information-henry-farrell/">
    <title>The Politics of Information | Five Books Expert Recommendations</title>
    <dc:date>2020-05-01T15:34:13+00:00</dc:date>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2019/11/25/seeing-like-a-finite-state-machine/">
    <title>Seeing Like a Finite State Machine — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2019-11-25T17:42:35+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2019/11/25/seeing-like-a-finite-state-machine/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[(The title makes me wonder what "seeing like a push-down stack machine" would entail, but well said...)]]></description>
<dc:subject>machine_learning authoritarianism farrell.henry kith_and_kin have_read re:democratic_cognition</dc:subject>
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<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:11c67e489521/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2018/10/03/move-over-sokal-hoax/">
    <title>Move over, Sokal Hoax — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2018-10-04T06:25:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2018/10/03/move-over-sokal-hoax/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>funny:academic funny:malicious funny:because_its_true economics kith_and_kin farrell.henry academia us_culture_wars</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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    <title>My last word on Nancy MacLean — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2018-09-19T03:27:44+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2018/09/18/my-last-word-on-nancy-maclean/#more-45022</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>kith_and_kin farrell.henry mclean.nancy</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/5/10/17338290/intellectual-dark-web-rogan-peterson-harris-times-weiss">
    <title>The “Intellectual Dark Web,” explained: What Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro have in common with the alt-right - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2018-05-10T16:48:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/5/10/17338290/intellectual-dark-web-rogan-peterson-harris-times-weiss</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>why_oh_why_cant_we_have_a_better_intelligentsia running_dogs_of_reaction kith_and_kin farrell.henry</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/4/9/17214752/zuckerberg-facebook-power-regulation-data-privacy-control-political-theory-data-breach-king">
    <title>Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg runs a nation-state, and he’s the king - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2018-04-10T15:33:37+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2018/4/9/17214752/zuckerberg-facebook-power-regulation-data-privacy-control-political-theory-data-breach-king</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Fully endorsed; it makes very explicit some points implicit in Tufekci's recent _Wired_ piece.
--- This is now the second piece Henry has written about online proto-polities (the first was about Silk Road [https://aeon.co/essays/why-the-hidden-internet-can-t-be-a-libertarian-paradise] ).  I really hope he is not working on a trilogy.

(ObPedant: "Nation-state" is wrong; "sovereign state" would be better.  I _know_ Henry knows this perfectly well, and I am sure that Prof. Levi does too; but they don't get to write their own headlines.)
]]></description>
<dc:subject>facebook political_science political_economy networked_life kith_and_kin farrell.henry levi.margaret have_read</dc:subject>
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    <title>American Democracy Is an Easy Target – Foreign Policy</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-06T14:57:03+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://foreignpolicy.com/2018/01/17/american-democracy-was-asking-for-it/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>democracy us_politics our_decrepit_institutions networked_life kith_and_kin farrell.henry have_read the_continuing_crises political_science social_life_of_the_mind re:actually-dr-internet-is-the-name-of-the-monsters-creator</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://aeon.co/essays/the-left-is-now-too-weak-for-democracy-to-survive">
    <title>The Left is now too weak for democracy to survive | Aeon Essays</title>
    <dc:date>2018-03-06T03:23:05+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://aeon.co/essays/the-left-is-now-too-weak-for-democracy-to-survive</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We have become squatters in the ruins of the great democratic societies of the past."

--- Don't know why I didn't bookmark this when I read it five years ago.
(Also, dollars to donuts that Henry was thinking of Gene Wolfe as he wrote that line, which has kept coming back to me all this time.)

]]></description>
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    <title>Most of what you think you know about human reasoning is wrong. Here’s why. - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-30T16:58:30+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2017/07/12/most-of-what-you-think-you-know-about-human-reasoning-is-wrong-heres-why/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I feel like with a little effort, the title could have become a small masterpiece of meta-click-bait.  (A good interview about important work.)]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read cognitive_science collective_cognition heuristics social_life_of_the_mind sperber.dan mercier.hugo farrell.henry kith_and_kin</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.cato-unbound.org/2018/01/17/henry-farrell/saving-democratic-institutions-corrupting-markets">
    <title>Saving Democratic Institutions from Corrupting Markets | Cato Unbound</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-18T22:10:13+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.cato-unbound.org/2018/01/17/henry-farrell/saving-democratic-institutions-corrupting-markets</link>
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<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Facebook-Stymies-Social/242090/#.WkvgtFwodfg.twitter">
    <title>How Facebook Stymies Social Science - The Chronicle of Higher Education</title>
    <dc:date>2018-01-06T02:28:34+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.chronicle.com/article/How-Facebook-Stymies-Social/242090/#.WkvgtFwodfg.twitter</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Behind every great data set there lies a great crime."]]></description>
<dc:subject>have_read kith_and_kin farrell.henry social_media network_data_analysis data_mining to_teach:data-mining social_measurement social_science_methodology</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
<dc:identifier>https://pinboard.in/u:cshalizi/b:1d3fce589242/</dc:identifier>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/10/16/16481836/nudges-thaler-nobel-economics-prize-undemocratic-tool">
    <title>This year’s economics Nobel winner invented a tool that’s both brilliant and undemocratic - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2017-10-18T21:25:46+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/10/16/16481836/nudges-thaler-nobel-economics-prize-undemocratic-tool</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Henry hits the points I would have wanted to make in an update of our old essay.]]></description>
<dc:subject>behavioral_economics democracy thaler.richard sunstein.cass farrell.henry kith_and_kin nudging</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/henry-farrell-steven-m-teles-when-politics-drives-scholarship">
    <title>When Politics Drives Scholarship | Boston Review</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-31T18:59:57+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/henry-farrell-steven-m-teles-when-politics-drives-scholarship</link>
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<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2017/07/21/why-coases-penguin-didnt-fly/">
    <title>Why Coase’s Penguin didn’t fly * — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2017-08-07T21:09:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2017/07/21/why-coases-penguin-didnt-fly/</link>
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<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2017/07/26/the-sovereign-myth-asks-the-wrong-question/">
    <title>“The Sovereign Myth” asks the wrong question — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-27T20:11:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2017/07/26/the-sovereign-myth-asks-the-wrong-question/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>political_economy capitalism democracy globalization farrell.henry levy.jacob_t. have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/14/15967788/democracy-shackles-james-buchanan-intellectual-history-maclean">
    <title>Even the intellectual left is drawn to conspiracy theories about the right. Resist them. - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2017-07-19T22:22:49+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/7/14/15967788/democracy-shackles-james-buchanan-intellectual-history-maclean</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>conspiracy_theories progressive_forces kith_and_kin farrell.henry lives_of_the_scholars running_dogs_of_reaction vast_right-wing_conspiracy</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.chronicle.com/article/FacebookFalsehood/238867">
    <title>Facebook and Falsehood - The Chronicle of Higher Education</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-18T19:45:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.chronicle.com/article/FacebookFalsehood/238867</link>
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<item rdf:about="http://democracyjournal.org/magazine/43/disunited-kingdom/">
    <title>Disunited Kingdom : Democracy Journal</title>
    <dc:date>2017-01-17T01:37:23+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://democracyjournal.org/magazine/43/disunited-kingdom/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>politics uk democracy our_decrepit_institutions farrell.henry</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/11/19/trumps-election-has-undermined-political-correctness-thats-a-huge-problem/">
    <title>Trump’s election has undermined ‘political correctness.’ That might actually be a problem. - The Washington Post</title>
    <dc:date>2016-11-20T16:16:15+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/11/19/trumps-election-has-undermined-political-correctness-thats-a-huge-problem/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>us_politics racism preference_falsification information_cascades trump.donald farrell.henry kith_and_kin running_dogs_of_reaction</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/10/13/13259860/twilight-elites-trump-meritocracy">
    <title>How the Chris Hayes book Twilight of the Elites explains Trump's appeal - Vox</title>
    <dc:date>2016-10-17T03:54:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/10/13/13259860/twilight-elites-trump-meritocracy</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>whats_gone_wrong_with_america our_decrepit_institutions farrell.henry hayes.chris us_politics</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="http://crookedtimber.org/2016/08/27/the-university-of-chicago-is-nothing-more-and-nothing-less-than-a-complex-of-safe-spaces/">
    <title>The University of Chicago is made of safe spaces — Crooked Timber</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-27T20:05:52+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://crookedtimber.org/2016/08/27/the-university-of-chicago-is-nothing-more-and-nothing-less-than-a-complex-of-safe-spaces/</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well said.]]></description>
<dc:subject>academia farrell.henry</dc:subject>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2016-04-22/panama-papers-and-thomas-piketty">
    <title>The Panama Papers and Thomas Piketty | Foreign Affairs</title>
    <dc:date>2016-04-25T16:45:02+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2016-04-22/panama-papers-and-thomas-piketty</link>
    <dc:creator>cshalizi</dc:creator><dc:subject>inequality corruption panama_papers piketty.thomas farrell.henry have_read</dc:subject>
<dc:source>https://pinboard.in/</dc:source>
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<item rdf:about="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2015/12/18/the-weekly-standard-makes-a-fact-free-argument-about-political-science-here-are-some-facts/">
    <title>The Weekly Standard makes a fact-free argument about political science. Here are some facts. - The Washington Post</title>
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