Peripheral Vision

a celebration of intellectual trespassing by a retired "social scientist" as he tries to make sense of the world..... Gillian Tett puts it rather nicely in her 2021 book “Anthro-Vision” - “We need lateral vision. That is what anthropology can impart: anthro-vision”.

Thursday, May 14, 2026

A Few More Books to Tempt You

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Adam Przeworski was born in Poland and has become one of the US's most famous political scientists - here he was  interviewed in 2003 by...
Thursday, May 7, 2026

STILL READING

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Two books with almost the same title – something which always intrigues me – didn’t they realise? Is one actually improving the other?  See ...
Sunday, May 3, 2026

More Reading

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For the 2 nd month running, more than 100,000 clicks this last month (actually 154k!). My recent “flicks” rather than proper reading includ...
Friday, May 1, 2026

STOIC SKILLS, IRAN AND POSSESSIVE INDIVIDUALISM

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The Stoic Skills substack identifies key skills – critical thinking, attention management, financial literacy, adaptability and self-refl...
Saturday, April 25, 2026

DEALING WITH VALUES

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I had missed Mark Carney’s latest book Values – Building a better word for all which came out in 2021. Its summary reads thus - Whenever I...
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Bran-Rucar corridor, Carpathian mountains..., Romania
Can be contacted at bakuron2003@yahoo.co.uk Political refugee from Thatcher's Britain (or rather Scotland) who has been on the move since 1991. First in central Europe - then from 1999 Central Asia and Caucasus. Working on EU projects - related to building capacity of local and central government. Home base is an old house in the Carpathian mountains
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