This blog is samzdat. My name is Lou Keep. These are popular essays. Kindly, they also make for the best introductions. If you’re curious about the blog’s name, read this post …| sam[ ]zdat
This is a brief update to let you know that I’m still alive. I appreciate the inquiries. I considered writing a question-and-answer section here, but it was completely insufferable. Needless to say: I haven’t been writing, now I am. I had to spend some time remembering first. Feel free to ask questions in the comment … Continue reading "Updates for 2019"| sam[ ]zdat
on the book of samuel and samizdats| sam[ ]zdat
related to: Enter a search term, e.g. “democracy” and Everything is Going According to Plan I The last essay I wrote can be summed up in a sentence: measurement won’t tell you anything unless…| sam[ ]zdat
You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there. -Yogi Berra I The previous essay was inescapably dense, the abstract territory was by nature ab…| sam[ ]zdat
notes on Kuhn and relativism| sam[ ]zdat
I The Economist: Democracy continues its disturbing retreat The US has been classified as a “flawed democracy” by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU)’s Democracy Index for the s…| sam[ ]zdat
continued from here. note: this is doing a lot of groundwork, so it’s pretty dense. 1 Philosophy may or may not be useless, I say we showed the opposite. Why? Book IV: And Adeimantus interrup…| sam[ ]zdat
