{"id":104,"date":"2012-01-19T16:32:30","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T16:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?page_id=104"},"modified":"2024-09-01T17:47:53","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T15:47:53","slug":"other-writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?page_id=104","title":{"rendered":"Other Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=2736\">Steady On Jeeves!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>From 2008 to 2021 I wrote a column every month in <a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=290\">Le Monde<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some other articles in the English language press from before 2022 (more recent book reviews have a separate page <a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=2591\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<div>\n<ul style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n<li>&#8220;One for the believers: the promise and slender evidentiary basis of democratic socialism&#8221;, <em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em>, 19th February 2021, review of Paul Adler&#8217;s <em>The 99% Economy<\/em>. Available <a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/TLS.022.1GL.19feb_369944188.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Goodness Paradox&#8221;, brief review of Richard Wrangham&#8217;s book of the same name in <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/journal\/32\">Common Knowledge<\/a>, January 2021, text available <a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/article\/781887\/pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Is Christianity Losing to Islam?&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\"><em>Project Syndicate<\/em><\/a>, 1st June 2019, text available <a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Is-Christianity-Losing-to-Islam-by-Paul-Seabright-Project-Syndicate.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Out of the box and into the boot camp&#8221;, <em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em>, 22nd January 2016, review of Gillian Tett&#8217;s <em>The Silo Effect<\/em>. Available <a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=1758\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n<li>&#8220;Cheering Up&#8221;, <em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em>, 18th December 2015, review of Layard and Clark&#8217;s <em>Thrive<\/em> and William Davis&#8217;s <em>The Happiness Industry<\/em>. Available <a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=1763\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n<li>&#8220;Desires of others&#8221;, <em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em>, 7th August 2015, review of David Brooks&#8217;s <em>The Road to Character<\/em>. Available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Desires-of-others-Social-cultural-studies-TLS.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n<li>&#8220;Deadly as the Male&#8221;, <em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em>, 15th May 2015, review of Melvin Konner&#8217;s <em>Women After All<\/em>. Download the pdf <a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/03-a04.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n<li>&#8220;Microeconomics For All&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/\">Project Syndicate<\/a>, 6th December 2013. [ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/paul-seabright-criticizes-the-poverty-of-the-undergraduate-microeconomics-curriculum\">Full text<\/a> ]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n<li>&#8220;The Future of Feminism&#8221;, Times Literary Supplement, 28th June 2013, review of books by Alison Wolf and Sheryl Sandberg. The review is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/tls\/public\/article1278853.ece\">here<\/a> and you can download a pdf <a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/The-future-of-feminism-TLS.pdf\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n<li>&#8220;The Euro marriage can be saved&#8221;, The Guardian, 21st May 2012\u00a0[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2012\/may\/20\/euro-marriage-can-be-saved\">Full text<\/a> ]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n<li>&#8220;Why Gender DOES Matter&#8221;, The Huffington Post Blog, 7th May 2012. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/paul-seabright\/gender-issues_b_1479326.html\"> Full text<\/a> ]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n<li>&#8220;How to Defend Universities?&#8221;, review of Stefan Collini&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/What-are-Universities-Stefan-Collini\/dp\/1846144825\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1331191782&amp;sr=8-1\">What Are Universities For?<\/a><\/em> in the Times Literary Supplement, March 2012. [ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/tls\/public\/article988690.ece\">Full text<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/How-to-defend-universities.pdf\">Download pdf<\/a> ]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">\n<li>&#8220;The Imaginot Line&#8221;, Foreign Policy, January 2011. [ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foreignpolicy.com\/articles\/2011\/1\/02\/the_imaginot_line\">Full text<\/a> ]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;Financial History&#8217;s False Lessons&#8221;, Project Syndicate: a world of ideas, August 2010.<\/p>\n<div>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/contributor\/1844\">Full Text<\/a> ]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>&#8220;Why we walk the dog&#8221;: Review in Times Literary Supplement of books by Geoffrey Miller, Tyler Cowen and Daniel Goleman, The Times, 13 November 2009. [ <a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Why_we_walk_the_dog.pdf\">(Download PDF, 1 Mb)<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tls.co.uk\/\">Website<\/a> ]<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Darwin and the terrible games of Homo Sapiens&#8221;, Financial Times, 2 January 2009. [ <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/economistsforum\/2009\/01\/darwin-and-the-terrible-games-of-homo-sapiens\/#axzz1nCvsmWGq\">Full Text <\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>Here is an unpublished political novel: <a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/?p=1126\">President Lidia<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here are some interviews and articles in languages other than English or French:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;Donne et Uomini: Antropologia di un Conflitto&#8221;, Primo Piano Scala C, February 2012 (in Italian).<\/p>\n<div>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/primopiano_scala_c_febbraio12_n2.pdf\">Full Text <\/a>] <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telosaes.it\/primo-piano-scala-c\/\">English version<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Here are some older articles and reviews of which pdfs happen to be available and which have not lost all relevance:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The Aestheticising Vice&#8221;, Review in <em>The London Review of Books<\/em> of James C. Scott&#8217;s Seeing Like A State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed, 27 May 1999. [ <a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Paul-Seabright-reviews-\u2018Seeing-Like-a-State\u2019-by-James-C.-Scott-\u00b7-LRB-27-May-1999.pdf\">(Download PDF)<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v21\/n11\/paul-seabright\/the-aestheticising-vice\">Website<\/a> ]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Operatic Theory of History&#8221;, Review in <em>The London Review of Books<\/em> of John Lloyd&#8217;s <em>Rebirth of a Nation: An Anatomy of Russia<\/em> and David Remnick&#8217;s <em>Resurrection: The Struggle for a new Russia<\/em>, 26 November 1998. [ <a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Paul-Seabright-reviews-\u2018Rebirth-of-a-Nation\u2019-by-John-Lloyd-and-\u2018Resurrection\u2019-by-David-Remnick-\u00b7-LRB-26-November-1998.pdf\">(Download PDF)<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/\">Website<\/a> ]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Down With Deflation!&#8221;, article about the sexual addiction theory of inflation, <em>London Review of Books<\/em>, 12 December 1996. [ <a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Paul-Seabright-\u00b7-Down-with-deflation-\u00b7-LRB-12-December-1996.pdf\">(Download PDF)<\/a> ]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Shall We Tell the Children?&#8221;, Review in <em>The London Review of Books<\/em> of Phyllis Grosskurth&#8217;s <em>Melanie Klein<\/em>, 3 July 1986.; includes resulting correspondence [<a href=\"https:\/\/paulseabright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Paul-Seabright-reviews-\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcMelanie-Klein\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;-by-Phyllis-Grosskurth-and-\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBloomsburyFreud\u00e2\u20ac&#x2122;-edited-by-Perry-Meisel-and-Walter-Kendrick-\u00c2\u00b7-LRB-3-July-1986-print-version.pdf\">(Download PDF) <\/a>| <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/\">Website<\/a> ]<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Character&#8221;, Review of Bernard Williams&#8217; <em>Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy<\/em>, London Review of Books, 5 September 1985. 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