Archive for Improving Society
There's a lovely 7-minute feel-good video that purports to reproduce a scientific study that, the video says, proves that the...
Yesterday someone linked to Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail, and I realized that I had never read it...
I think I linked to Erin McKean's excellent 2006 post “You Don't Have to Be Pretty” at some point, but...
Fairly often in discussions of sf, especially in discussions of epic fantasy, fans use the idea of historical accuracy to...
Here's a simple guideline that I wish more people in our society would follow: Don't touch other people without their...
I just happened across a 2012 chat among female Rookie magazine staffers, discussing and listing a few dozen instances of...
Three items that feel thematically related to me: I've been concerned for a decade or so about the possibility of...
Some notes toward the blog entry that I'm probably not going to manage to write about Orson Scott Card and...
A while back, someone pointed me to a book called Domination and the Arts of Resistance, by James C. Scott....
In 2000, the Yale Law Journal published a fascinating article by Cass R. Sunstein titled “Deliberative Trouble? Why Groups Go...
The “American novelists” category on Wikipedia is apparently theoretically supposed to be just a list of subcategories, but it currently...
I've been meaning for a long time to write something coherent about some of the stuff I've been reading about...