I don't want to say too much about the Rathbun-Arena smackdown (smackduck?) taking place but I will say this: We often rely on maps that are not "true." The Mercator projection is "wrong" if our criterion is "showing countries according to their relative size" but...
Earlier today, Brian Rathbun criticized "rationalists" for making assumptions.* Â I have some thoughts on the matter, and I expressed many of them on Twitter. Â And in the language of Twitter --...
Just yesterday I cautioned a graduate student not to get on the wrong side of some powerful people for the sake of principle if he could not truly effect change. And yet here I sit typing this right...