By way of The Longbow Papers, a very good article that explains why the US is so much more conservative than similar countries in Europe. Extracts: “At the start of the 20th century, the U.S. looked progressive compared with Europe’s empires. The big difference between the U.S. and Europe is that the U.S. kept its [...]

While playing with the University of Toronto’s library pages, I did some random searches and came across an article about “Participation in the global knowledge commons” by Leslie Chan and Sely Costa. First of all, this is an example of how digitalizing academic publishing, and making it accessible for free-text searches makes knowledge more available [...]