Crooked Timber
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Crooked Timber is a widely-read political blog run by a group of (mostly) academics from and working in several different nations, including the USA, the UK, Ireland, Australia and Singapore.
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[edit] History
Crooked Timber was founded in July 2003 as a merger of several individual blogs, including Junius and Gallowglass, along with some new contributors. Additional members were added over subsequent months until the group reached an agreed optimum of 15 members.
Crooked Timber ranked in Technorati's Top 100 blogs between 2003 and 2005 and is still widely linked to in the academic blogosphere. On March 9 2008, it was listed as number 33. in The Guardian's list of the world's 50 most important blogs.
The name alludes to a quotation of Immanuel Kant: "Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made." (Isaiah Berlin also alluded to the same quote in The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas.)
[edit] Current members
| Name | Link | |
|---|---|---|
| Chris Bertram | [1] | Political philosopher at the University of Bristol, UK |
| Michael Bérubé | [2] | Professor of American literature and cultural studies at Pennsylvania State University |
| Harry Brighouse | [3] | Political philosopher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison |
| Daniel Davies | [4] | Financial analyst in the city of London |
| Henry Farrell | [5] | Political scientist at George Washington University |
| Maria Farrell | [6] | Policy officer at ICANN |
| Eszter Hargittai | [7] | Sociologist at Northwestern University |
| Kieran Healy | [8] | Sociologist at the University of Arizona |
| John Holbo | [9] | Philosopher at the National University of Singapore |
| Jon Mandle | [10] | Political philosopher at SUNY Albany |
| Scott McLemee | [11] | Writer, Inside Higher Education |
| John Quiggin | [12] | Economist at the University of Queensland, Australia |
| Ingrid Robeyns | [13] | Postdoctoral researcher, University of Amsterdam |
| Belle Waring | [14] | Trained as a Classicist at Berkeley; living in Singapore |
| Brian Weatherson | [15] | A philosopher at Rutgers University |
[edit] Former members
| Name | Link | |
|---|---|---|
| Ted Barlow | Economic consultant in Houston, TX | |
| Tom Runnacles | Software developer in the city of London, previously studied philosophy at Oxford University | |
| Micah Schwartzman | [16] | Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law |
