Over at the excellent blog Crooked Timber, a lengthy and extremely productive seminar discussion has just gone online about my book, with contributions from John Quiggin, Daniel Davies, Ted Barlow, John Holbo, Steve Fuller (of Dover evolution trial fame), Tim Lambert, Henry Farrell, and John Quiggin again--all followed by a lengthy response from yours truly. I'll have more to say on this soon, but I hope you will dig in to this excellent discussion, starting out with the seminar introduction by John Quiggin....
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