Hyperglobalist

Yes, there are high-profile examples of those, but the vast majority of startups in SV do not fall in that category. But I agree that you have to let in a fairly broad class of people to get the entrepreneurial ones.

If you allow in skilled workers, many of them would be interested in starting their own companies creating more jobs for all. That has been the history in Silicon Valley, though that might change in the coming years.

People should read the history of Christianity to see what ends up getting passed down is the result of how politically wily the bishops favoring a doctrine were, how much mob violence were they willing to foment, to what extent they could marshal imperial power, and so on. It is power politics.

Among all countries Mexico, India, China are in the top 10, the first two being top 5, in the number of tourists that come here (2023 figure). Besides tourism this would make holding academic conferences very difficult in the US.

Once upon a Time in Tenoxtitlan - Public Books Two novels published in 2024 return to some of the best-known, canonical figures and episodes from Mexico’s past.

“Against any conception of history as Important Personages, as great men wielding power and shaping destiny, Herrera and Enrigue offer outsiders and unruly rabble, language that shifts like uncertain ground.” www.publicbooks.org/once-upon-a-...

Cover of Anthony Trollope's 'Doctor Thorne' part of the Barsetshire series of novels.

Trollope is quite addictive. These fun, sweet, gentle novels are a great source of distraction for me.

🧵 On my short book on resistance and repression in East and Southeast Asia on the eve of its official 24 July UK release date (it came out in the U.S. June 10), below is the short review of it that just appeared on the New Statesman's website (link here www.newstatesman.com/culture/book... )

Book cover. The background in sepia tones Showa man dictating to scribes. A cream box in the center has light brown writing that contains the title (Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean) and the words "Edited by Jeremiah Coogan, Candid R. Moss, and Jospeh A. Howley.

Excited to announce that after a lot of editorial work our volume "Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE - 300 CE" is out now. @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social @illdottore.bsky.social

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More bailouts and shielding domestic industry from foreign competition are going to do the trick any day now.

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Missed Amit Chaudhuri. He makes the 5 or more books threshold.

Honorable mentions go to Nabokov, Ian McEwan, Graham Swift, Julian Barnes, Martin Amis, Trollope, Victor Serge, Jonathan Coe, Jhumpa Lahiri, Rohinton Mistry, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, George Eliot.

Trying to rack my brains about 10 authors whose 5 or more books I have read, this is the best I could do, counting each part as a separate novel for Proust and Bolaño's 2666.

Dickens.
Agatha Christie.
Le Carré.
Naipaul.
Rushdie.
Sebald.
Modiano.
Proust.
Bolaño.
Saul Bellow.

Also, I never seem to be able to come up with a genuinely new idea, while scribbling on paper sitting down. All I can do is rehash known tricks in this posture. For a new path of enquiry to suggest itself I have to be engaged in something unrelated like taking a shower or walking someplace.

But it can also be defined in terms of property of a projection map on a product space - something far removed from any ordinary sense of compactness.
What seems remarkable is that similar concepts that arise in different areas, presumably at different times get the same name. Example nilpotence.

My 2 cents.
Most mathematical concepts worth naming are too multi-faceted to be captured by everyday words. Take compact sets for example. Most see 2 or 3 equivalent definitions that are related to quotidian notions of compactness.

Thomas Bernhard's 'Correction' where the main character builds what he calls the Cone for his sister in a forest is another example.

I just want to live in a world class city with people from all over the world and hang out with my friends and talk about books and movies and do some writing and crack some jokes

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New endorsement of our book, The Postcolonial Bildungsroman (with @ualbertapress.bsky.social) just dropped, and it’s from none other than the wonderful & brilliant Prof. Ankhi Mukherjee.

The book is out in September. Please consider pre-ordering & spreading the word!

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I need more books in this genre of "sinister and mysterious happenings send local woman into existential crisis"

Berlin, Paris, London... There are cities where history is "made." But then there are cities, where history happens, not always with the input of the citizens. These two books, one history, one a novel based on historical events, explore the city of Trieste, its citizens, and its fate.

Jhumpa Lahiri on Mavis Gallant’s “Voices Lost in Snow” The author on the New Yorker story that inspired her story “Jubilee.”

For #NYRBWomen25 readers currently in Mavis Gallant’s stories, the latest issue of The New Yorker has Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Jubilee,” which was inspired by Gallant’s “Voices Lost in Snow.” Lahiri discusses Gallant with Deborah Treisman here: www.newyorker.com/magazine/tak....

The Comma Queen’s Lesson on “Who” Versus “Whom” Does civilization depend on the proper use of “who” and “whom”?

Caring about when to use "who" versus when to use "whom," in this climate? It matters, Mary Norris, a former copy editor at The New Yorker, writes. “Keeping up standards is the only way to show the bastards that they will not beat us in the end." Learn the correct way to use "who" and “whom.”

Cover of the book 'Ancient Christianities: The first five hundred years' by Paula Fredriksen.

Currently reading.

When one reads the early history of the all too human machinations to establish orthodoxy, I do not know how a faith in "one true message from God" can be sustained.

identity with a clear analytical edge.

Ferlinghetti in his preface to his own translation of Prévert concurs with critics calling him a "surrealist clown" with "the cheapest mind this side of Hollywood." Should be fun.

Probably written in the aftermath of his election which was greeted with worldwide ebullience. But I was quite moved by another poem in the collection decrying politics that regards a hard world with cold eyes which made me buy the book.

Charif Shanahan writes about queer desire and his mixed race

Cover of two books: Paroles by Prévert and Trace Evidence by Charif Shanahan.

Cover of Ben Okri's book of poetry "A Fire in my Head"

Picked up these three poetry books at my local bookstore. Not an expert reader of poetry. I do not know my iambs from my trochees, though these are mostly unrhymed and unmetred. Prévert does rhyme in the original. Ben Okri has an embarrassing poem devoted to Obama in this collection.

To discover
You still have
A world
To make
At sunset
Sobers
The stones

- Ben Okri.