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Essay

Bubble Trouble

August 30, 2011 The American Prospect
In a 2009 book about the social consequences of the Internet, The Age of the Infovore, the economist and blogger Tyler Cowen argues that new ...
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Essay

How to Save the Euro – and the EU: Reading Keynes in Brussels with John Quiggin

April 26, 2011 Foreign Affairs with John Quiggin
John Quiggin and I have a “piece”:http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67761/henry-farrell-and-john-quiggin/how-to-save-the-euro-and-the-eu on the eurozone mess in the new issue of _Foreign Affairs._ The piece is subscriber-only, but we’re allowed ...
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Book review

Into the Breach: China Miéville’s Other Reality

April 1, 2011 Book review Criticism Fiction
When Granta compiled its decennial list of the best young British writers ten years ago, it did not include China Miéville, thank to his well-known ...
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Book review

The State of Statelessness

January 1, 2011 Book review Criticism Fiction
In August 8, 1897, Michele Angiolillo, an Italian anarchist, shot Antonio Cánovas del Castillo, the Prime Minister of Spain. Cánovas had dominated Spanish politics for ...
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Democracy

A More Perfect Union

November 10, 2010 Democracy EU Europe
Americans are writing Europe off–and apparently for good reason. The last several months have seen the European Union stagger from one crisis to another. After ...
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Essay

Building a Political Science Public Sphere with Blogs with John Sides

October 10, 2010 political science research; blogs; public debate The Forum8 with John Sides
We argue that political science blogs can link conversations among political scientists with broader public debates about contemporary issues. Political science blogs do this by ...
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Essay

Blogs and Bullets: New Media in Contentious Politics with Sean Aday, Marc Lynch, John Sides, John Kelly and Ethan Zuckerman,

August 16, 2010 John Kelly and Ethan Zuckerman John Sides Marc Lynch
In this report from the United States Institute of Peace’s Centers of Innovation for Science, Technology, and Peacebuilding, and Media, Conflict, and Peacebuilding, a team ...
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Essay

Reading Milton Friedman in Dublin

May 1, 2010 The Washington Monthly
When I first came to the United States from Ireland in the early 1990s, Americans thought of my home country as a land of green ...
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Essay

European Parliament Takes a Stand – with Abraham Newman

February 26, 2010 Foreign Policy (online) with Abraham Newman
Most Americans, if they think about the European Parliament at all, probably imagine a bunch of left-wing backbenchers goofing off in Brussels or Strasbourg with ...
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Essay

Do The Netroots Matter?

June 25, 2009 The American Prospect
These should be good times for the netroots, the loose coalition of bloggers, MoveOn activists, and online organizers that sees itself as the Democratic wing ...
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Substack

  • Absolute power can be a terrible weakness
  • The attention economy is devouring politics
  • The management singularity
  • Vico's Singularity
  • Shoggoths amongst us

Other Notes

  • Henry's guide to good writing for undergraduate political science students
  • A seminar on Francis Spufford's wonderful book, Red Plenty. (Made into a beautiful PDF by John Holbo)
  • In memory of Aaron Swartz

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