From the monthly archives:

June 2004

Puking

June 29, 2004

– Right now, as I write, there is a man in his mid thirties bent over puking on the sidewalk across the street from my window and desk. It’s 4:30 in the afternoon. Evidence that gentrification is by no means complete.

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Back from C’ville

June 28, 2004

– Hi everybody! I’m back from Charlottesville. The Social Change Workshop was I think a big success. Great students. Great faculty. Great week. So many people I want to keep in touch with. And the Mercatus manuscript discussion of John Nye’s forthcoming this past weekend was outstanding. Chilled by the pool and played tennis [...]

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Gmail Sweepstake

June 17, 2004

– OK. The great gmail giveaway continues. Can’t seem to get rid of these things. I’ve got six accounts to give away. If you want one, you got it. Email me willwilkinson at gmail dot, you know, com.
[UPDATE: All gone! Thanks for playing.]

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Social Change Workshop for Graduate Students

June 17, 2004

– You’ll have noticed that I’ve been rather lax with the blog. Well, I’ve been busy organizing this year’s IHS Social Change Workshop for Graduate Students. I’ll be driving down to Charlottesville tomorrow to set things up, and then running the Workshop all next week. Check out the list of lectures, and seminar and workshop [...]

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Alternative History

June 16, 2004

– Reading about the 10 plane al Qaeda plot, I wonder what would have happened had AQ had their shit together. Imagine if the dome of the US Capitol had been imploded by a jetliner! I think this would have been the single most rousing target. The Capitol represents the American democracy, and hence [...]

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GPI Journalism Fellows

June 10, 2004

– The Mercatus Center’s Global Prosperity Initiative Journalism Fellows are a great bunch. Matt Welch, Mark Hemingway, and Melinda Ammann are some of my favorite people. Somehow, I’ve never managed to meet Matt, but we emailed back and forth when this blogging thing was starting (his wife said I was cute!), and I can’t imagine [...]

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Reagan and Confirmation Bias

June 7, 2004

– I am fairly nauseated by the Reagan retrospectives, left and right. It’s dispiriting to see that it apparently next-to-impossible for human beings to go beyond their ideological commitments and make a more or less objective assessment of a man’s accomplishments. We see all the usual mechanisms of ideological insulation. Any good during Reagan’s reign [...]

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