Rebecca Lowe

@daniel_dsj2110 David wiggins

Some great thinkers (philosophy/history) now in their 90s--who else am I missing? Pocock, 98 Chomsky, 94 MacIntyre, 93 Habermas, 93 C. Taylor, 91

@pastasnack_e oh no i'm intending to go see it this summer!

I want to love the Hoover Dam but having visited there I felt like an ant. Totally desolate, huge and inhuman. Hot enough that you would die very quickly if abandoned there. Genuinely quite a frightening vibe.

my piece for The Pursuit of Liberalism about why we should think of Adam Smith as an economist rather than a philosopher (DUH!) thepursuitofliberalism.substack.com/p/adam-smith-e…

Two indie devs made a game where you run your own video store in the early 90s. It’s currently the #5 top-selling game on Steam. - Rent out VHS tapes & manage customers - Charge Late & Broken Fees - Upgrade & customise your store It’s called Retro Rewind - Video Store Simulator

@andrew_lilico We will be back in the world of concealed births and infanticide charges that we had from the early 17th century to the mid 19th.

It’s a sort of minor tragedy that generally intelligent and well educated people don’t read any philosophy at all. — Bryan Magee

* Drought Stabilizing, but Not Over * The latest federal Drought Monitor report is out today. Most of the D.C. region remains in Moderate Drought, an improvement from the Severe Drought that covered much of the area from late December through mid-February. About 2–2.5 inches of precipitation since March 1, and 7–8 inches since Jan. 1, have helped stabilize conditions after last year ended as the driest since 2016. However, a recent drying trend has left the region slightly below normal for precipitation this month, and models suggest below-normal precipitation will continue through the rest of March.

I have completed my AI writing experiment on urbanity and rurality in politics throughout history, which I ended up calling The Mountain is High after an ancient Chinese proverb which ChatGPT turned up during the process.

@FriedrichHayek in all instances?

@RMLLowe Larry Wright — a car guy with an engineering degree — thought carefully about the functional parts of a combustion engine developing his landmark work on teleological explanation. The answer is, yes.

an (only slightly) hyperbolic thing i wrote about adam smith thepursuitofliberalism.substack.com/p/adam-smith-e…

@FriedrichHayek does careful thinking about how to make a combustion engine count as philosophy?

@RMLLowe Philosophy is simply careful thinking about difficult things, and those difficult things can be found in many different domains, including science, and the law, and morality — Adam Smith, did careful thinking about difficult things in each of those domains.

a curiously poor picture of Clegg, unveiled at the National Liberal Club yesterday

retweeting this piece i wrote a while back, in the context of today's terrible news about 'progress' on the sudden and extreme UK political push to decriminalise undertaking abortion at any stage including full term endsdontjustifythemeans.com/p/why-assisted…

This image broke my brain. Nothing is moving!

A bit of #Jupiter Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/@kevinmgill

You have your superbowl and we have whatever this is. So grateful for such an intellectually vibrant workplace.

spot the invisible hand!

about to moderate the Great Adam Smith Debate @mercatus! #happybirthdaywealthofnations

New for @_fitzwilliam: Notes on my mini conference about the life of Milton Friedman