complexity ⁽²⁾

I have been reading the substack Grand Strategy: The View from Oregon since late 2024. It’s J.N. Nielsen’s more recently used platform as his work is available on tumblr and there is a newsletter or two. I have been educated by all this and is my go to read on substack. Especially for the generalist reader (as opposed the general…

In the negative gist I riffed on the context for page 212, of the 2017 biography of Mary Douglas, which lists the misunderstandings people have of her work. So here I will try to put down a positve version, if not a definition. It will be based on my reading of her work, which is by no means complete. When…