Month: July 2022Page 1 of 2
When the whole world has been opened to capital, there is nowhere to expand into. There are no more sources of cheap labour or raw materials, and no…
Ontology (‘what is’) is a topic students often have difficulty grappling with in their work. It tends to end up being a set of buzzwords that people lay…
As Olivia Rodrigo so wisely said ‘it’s brutal out there’. But we are never so brutal as with ourselves. Apply widely and be adaptable – you can fit…
In my quest to expose the writing process I have structured this paper using named paragraphs. Each paragraph has a title showing the purpose it performs as part…
Cultural accounts of illicit markets and criminal activities are the best way to develop a feel for them. Here are my recommendations: Podcasts Some of the most insightful…
I want to engage with a type of argument that is self-undermining. The months after Al-Qaeda’s attacks on New York and Washington in 2001 birthed an immoral decision….
One of the annoying things academic competition does is push us to develop elaborate ways of not quite saying what is staring us in the face. There is…
…really just one social fact Crime is behaviour that is intentional, measurable and directly harmful. The only reason to care about crime is that it gets in the…
Never ask me ‘do you think this is fence electrified? Are these berries poisonous? Is this knife super-sharp?’ Or somesuch. I know only one path to knowledge and…
… or possibly it will make you feel very much worse. Not sure. But I think you need to know this. Discussing with research students about the many…
