Sublime

As Burke said in describing his early years in Albany, “Murphy delegates to the point of anarchy.”7

First some background on the meeting: I have been a member of a leaderless support group with ten other therapists for the past fifteen years,

During much of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, private detective agencies had filled the vacuum left by decentralized, underfunded, incompetent, and corrupt sheriff and police departments.

Dubose took the stand and testified about what he and other employees called “the Koch Method.” As he later described it, “They were just mis-measuring crude oil from the Indian reservations as they did all over the U.S. If you bought crude, you’d shorten the gauge. They’d show you how. They had meters in the field. They’d recalibrate them, so if i

Quand le professeur de psychologie, David Rosenhan, partit en congé sabbatique, j’ai accepté de reprendre son cours de premier cycle sur la psychopathologie, mais ce fut le dernier de ce genre que j’ai donné. J’ai peu à peu délaissé la science médicale, mon affiliation d’origine, pour les sciences humaines. Ce fut une période de passion, mais aussi

These are the scales of modern human networks, and it’s Dunbar’s number multiplied by millions. In these large-scale communities, standards and self-governance can’t be maintained by people simply running around and talking to each other. Instead, the builders of these networked products must create features that nudge the interactions in the right

When Donald Trump claimed that he used his own money to finance his primary campaign, he was really declaring, to the chagrin of his party leadership, that he was not to be part of Washington’s massive network of intertwining patron–client relationships.