Friday, August 25, 2017

What TIMN is good for — #3: explaining systemic corruption, cont. (Chayes on Trump)

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Let’s wrap up this three-part effort to compare the CEIP and TIMN frameworks as ways to explain systemic corruption. CODA: KEEPING ...
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What TIMN is good for — #3: explaining systemic corruption, cont. (TIMN vis à vis Chayes’ Honduras analysis)

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Can TIMN — a potentially grand theory of social evolution — explain a condition so mundane and counter-evolutionary as corruption? Yes...
Thursday, August 17, 2017

What TIMN is good for — #3: explaining systemic corruption (TIMN vs. CEIP’s framework)

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Corruption keeps thriving around the world, constantly hindering   social, economic, political, and military moderniza...
Thursday, August 10, 2017

Readings about tribes and tribalism — #17 (second of two supplements to #15): Mark Weiner, "The Paradox of Modern Individualism" (2014)

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Mark Weiner's "The Paradox of Modern Individualism" ( 2014 ) provides still more observations about the ...
Wednesday, August 9, 2017

Readings about tribes and tribalism — #16 (first of two supplements to #15): Interview by Deven Desai, "Bright Ideas: Mark Weiner on his new book Rule of the Clan" (2013)

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Weiner's analysis of clans is so pertinent to this series of readings that I'm adding two supplements to pos...
Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Readings about tribes and clans — #15: Mark Weiner's "The call of the clan: why ancient kinship and tribal affiliation still matter in a world of global geopolitics" (2013)

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Mark Weiner's article "The call of the clan: why ancient kinship and tribal affiliation still matter in a world of global...
Monday, August 7, 2017

Readings about tribes and tribalism — #14: Richard Landes's “How Thinking Right Can Save the Left” (2015)

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Here's an argument I've not seen before: “What’s needed is more tribalism, not less”. It's the subtitle and crucial p...