Nikhil Venkatesh

Nobel season is upon us so I am staying close to my phone so I can post without delay

some instagram account has posted a screenshot of dan's post that says "My wife and I never talk baby talk to our kid. We enforce academic seminar norms and jargon. My child isnt even 2 yet and can interrupt presenters on the first slide. Adults at family gatherings are shocked when my child asks a questino that turns out to be more of a comment." it has THIRTY SIX THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIVE LIKES

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YouTube video by Philosophy at UWA Summer of Logic

Just been alerted to this all-time great course introduction video youtu.be/oR-AtP1VvUM?...

Jacobin Radio - Long Reads: Portugal’s Left in Retreat w/ Catarina Príncipe (Part 2) Listen to Jacobin Radio - Long Reads: Portugal’s Left in Retreat w/ Catarina Príncipe (Part 2) by Jacobin on Podcast Addict. This week’s episode of Long Reads is the second in a two-part interview. In our last episode, we spoke to Catarina Príncipe about the politics of Portugal since 2015. Today we’re going to cover developments from 2022 onward. One of the main themes in that period has been the rise of the far right. In 2022, the parties of the radical left, the Communist Party and the Left Bloc,

Just learnt that Portugal's centre-left government fell because prosecutors got the Prime Minister mixed up with someone else who has a similar name

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When you make your point in the body of the paper, but come back for extra snark in the footnote

This is a fascinating discussion. I get why the US left doesn't love Ezra Klein but in terms of intellectual curiosity and honesty, he is streets ahead of any of the liberals we have in the UK

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Yeah every time I go back to the original texts I'm impressed by them

Three books, seen standing with the spines towards us. They are Mill 'On Liberty and other writings', Bentham 'An introduction to the principles of morals and legislation', a d Bentham 'selected writings'

Friends fear he is getting back into classical utilitarianism

Quantitative social theory is where you 'solve for' something, rather than solving it. Qualitative social theory is where you 'think' something rather than thinking about it.

The post-pm career contrast to Brown is striking and may tell us something about who to credit with the good bits in office

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Underrated

Chris Woakes retires from international cricket to end 15-year England career Chris Woakes has announced his retirement from international cricket, bringing to a close a near 15-year England career

Stay Woakes www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Not a Notts fan but loving the Haseeb Hameed redemption arc

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Great work on the title

To Reduce Poverty, Expand the Welfare State The policy solutions to poverty are simple: redistribute capital ownership and expand the welfare state.

Sorry, bad link jacobin.com/2025/08/welf...

Exactly that has been argued in Jacobin recently ( go.bsky.app/redirect?u=h... ). But this disagreement might just be semantic: is the safety net part of "the economy" or not?

Jimmy Reid: ‘We’re Not Rats. We’re Human Beings.’ 50 years ago this week, Jimmy Reid led the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in that defeated the Tory government. In commemoration, we republish his speech about alienation under capitalism.

Jimmy Reid's 1972 speech: the greatest summary of socialist ethics I have come across (even if I don't really get the bit about the sherry ad) tribunemag.co.uk/2021/07/jimm...

Burnham's pathway to the Leadership I read Labour's rulebook - and here's what I found

Interesting point here www.whatthelawdoes.com/p/burnhams-p...

Inject it into my veins bsky.app/profile/guys...

Let's goooooo

Screenshot from New Yorker interview by Isaac Chotiner with Cass Sunstein

when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

I think that's probably what I was thinking of

Thank you!

Some philosopher somewhere makes a helpful distinction between a concept and a conception of something (i think welfare), but I can't seem to find the piece. Any help from my philosophy followers?

And not be actively attacking their own left flank too!

It's obviously true unless something unexpected happens, but a) the incumbent government needs to actually have *delivered for its coalition* to lead a republican front b) the leader needs to be a plausible leader of it and c) they do need to actually be able to say 'Vichy was bad'.

you come to me, on this, the 21st night of september, and you ask me if i remember