It's been a long and difficult semester, and I haven't had much time for blogging. I'm on break for the next month or so though, so hopefully I'll get some writing done. In the meantime, here's my final paper from my Extremism course. It's titled, "Explaining Genocide: How Ordinary People Become Mass-Murderers." It's mostly a rehash of what other people have said on the subject, though I make a few original contributions and modifications as I go. The prediction that there will be fewer genocides in the next century is all me. I'm crossing my fingers that history will bear me out on that.
I also understand that the Winter issue of Dialogue has just mailed, with a paper by Andrew Cook and myself ("The Original Length of the Scroll of Hôr") as the lead article. A full-color version of this paper is also available from the Dialogue website.
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Looking forward to more blog posts!
I'll take a look at the Dialogue journal once I don't have 3G for Internet access. How has it been received so far? (I'm guessing you've mentioned it somewhere on MADB by now)
There hasn't been much in the way of response. Will Schryver swears it's going to be demolished by some forthcoming publication or other, and there was a math guy on MADB who made an intelligent-sounding but ultimately fallacious objection to our assumptions. (I won't bore you with the details, since it's technical math stuff.)
When you do read the paper, I recommend glossing over the middle, mathematical section. It's pretty technical, and you can get the basic idea from the introduction and conclusion. The math will probably be of interest only to specialists or those who want to repeat/debunk the paper.
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