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Ideogram.ai with prompt: “Create an image of J.K. Rowling writing a fan email to Virginia Postrel with a copy of The Fabric of Civilization next to her laptop. Put some Harry Potter books and memorabilia on a bookshelf in the background.”...
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The first print edition of Works in Progress is out, with my inaugural history column. Here’s the opening:
In 1588, Galileo had not yet looked through a telescope. Microscopes, pendulum clocks, barometer...
Princeton’s iconic Blair Hall was the university’s first neo-Gothic (aka “collegiate Gothic” in the U.S.) dormitory. It was paid for by John Insley Blair, who left school at 11 and made his money in iron, coal, and especially railroads. Bef...
Maybe this chart explains it? Keep reading to find out what it tracks.
Roots of Progress Institute founder Jason Crawford recently hosted me at an Interintellect salon. Our topic was the relation between glamour and progress, inspired by m...
The great economic historian Joel Mokyr, mentor to many and all-round mensch, has won the Nobel Prize. has a good article on the arc and significance of his work for . Here’s the WSJ (free link), with some typically funny Mokyr quotes, and...
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Author of The Future and Its Enemies, The Substance of Style, The Power of Glamour, and, most recently, The Fabric of Civilization. Contributing editor to WorksinProgress.co.
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