Monday assorted links
2. Them vs. us, but in Brexit demands, who exactly is the “us”?
3. Patrick Blanchfield, The Gun Control We Deserve. Recommended. And here is an alternative perspective on why so many people own AR-15s. Also recommended.
4. “In Guadalajara, Mexico, streets are named after artists, constellations, Aztec history and mythology, rivers, writers and botany. Imagination costs little, yet it remains rare.” Archaeology of street names.
5. “A political philosophy devoted to the pursuit of what we now consider ideal justice, and which seeks a “well-ordered society” based on this shared ideal, almost certainly will condemn us to a society based on an inferior view of justice. Political philosophy, I argue, has too long labored under the sway of theorists’ pictures of an ideally just society; we ought instead to investigate the characteristics of societies that encourage increasingly just arrangements.” That is from philosopher Gerald Gaus.
6. An explainer on the DAO attack. And a Reddit explainer.
7. Henry on The Age of Em. Robin responds, and more from Robin here.