Monthly Archives: October 2013

Smarter Than You: The Ideology of the Incentive (Parking Lot Edition)

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Timothy Burke

I’ve already made my feelings about most uses of “incentives” by technocratic planners fairly plain, and besides, I’m just really at best a handmaiden on this point for my colleagues Ken Sharpe and Barry Schwartz, who make the argument more … Continue reading →

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The Cheese Stands Alone

Posted on October 3, 2013 by Timothy Burke

The movement for higher education to divest from fossil fuel producers frustrates me. First and foremost in the way that participants in the movement are anointing themselves as sole moral paragons struggling through a wasteland of sin and sinners. I … Continue reading →

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Amendments

Posted on October 1, 2013 by Timothy Burke

John Winthrop’s City Upon a Hill, amended for 2013: Now the onely way to ENSURE this shipwracke and to SCREW OVER our posterity is to followe the Counsell of Micah, to doe UNjustly, to SCORN mercy, to YELL LOUDLY ABOUT … Continue reading →

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