Liberal goods are good
One sign of societal decadence is shying away from clear explanations because they are too easy. So here we go:…
Tasks to set students studying illicit markets and organised crime
I am sharing some plans for how I introduce topics to students. I would like other teachers to use them…
Football and alcohol, the political carnival
Colleagues and myself have studied football fandom and alcohol in terms of what is called the carnivalesque.(Bandura et al. 2023)….
The gentrification of suffering
Gentrification has three meanings. All refer to a kind of relentless nicening, the civilizing process at work. First a process…
Smells like 极 客精神
One theme of mine is territorialization of the digital world, and the tight relationship between cyber criminals and their governments….
Harm reduction is not the point, what is useful is what happens around it
Nothing is a silver bullet. Except when it is. I was reminded reading Nicholls et al (2022) report on drug…
Trump is a turf warrior: crypto as a digital territory.
Nobody talks much about capillary power these days. Probably because we have too many lessons in actual power. This was…
