Top Ten for February 28, 2021

Political values are absorbed and maintained because we want to impress people around us or because elites instruct us to have them

History of Ideas Series 2: Rousseau, Bentham, Douglass, Butler ...

Farmer grabs lynx by scruff of neck, scolds it for killing chickens

The unified cosmic vision of Alexander von Humboldt, the nineteenth century’s great naturalist-adventurer

Fall of Civilizations does the Inca

Tram trip through Amsterdam

Joshua Abrams’ Natural Information Society

Scott Ross, harpsichordist and a guide to the harpsichord

The Fermi Paradox Is Our Business Model