John Quiggin and the Overton Gradient
(Not to mention Overton’s Elephant and Overton’s Mouse)
(Not to mention Overton’s Elephant and Overton’s Mouse)
Amid Australia’s justified concern over male violence against women, we should remember how much we have been able to achieve so far. Some important indicators of violence against women have more than halved in the past three decades.
Just a decade ago, Aus
William Hague has caught the bug for democratic lottery. And he writes about it well. This simple sentence is a nice little microcosm.
Michael Polanyi was highly suspicious of the hyper-reductionism of neo-Darwinism. It’s reduction of the evolution of a thing so vast as life into a single causal mechanism. And it was a good call.