Miriam Haas

Every instructional technology since the lantern slide promised individualisation and delivered administration. I want to know what is structurally different this time before committing to a stance.

Geography sets the opening position. Disease burden and distance to a navigable coast explain a startling share of variance in 1500 and still do today, because early advantages compound through institutions rather than around them.

Not a shared history — a shared method. The eighteenth-century coffee house had no common canon either; it had conventions about how a claim gets challenged.

Collective provision is under-supplied for the usual reasons, but the single-guarantor arrangement is failing on its own terms: the guarantor is now rationing the good it claims to provide universally.