Crooked Timber
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Crooked Timber is a widely-read political blog run by a group of (mostly) academics from and working in several different nations, including the USA, the UK, Ireland, Australia and Singapore.
Crooked Timber was founded in July 2003 as a merger of several individual blogs, including Junius and Gallowglass, along with some new contributors. Additional members were added over subsequent months until the group reached an agreed optimum of 15 members.
Crooked Timber ranked in Technorati's Top 100 blogs between 2003 and 2005 and is still widely linked to in the academic blogosphere. Its members are as follows:
- Chris Bertram [1]. A political philosopher at the University of Bristol, UK.
- Harry Brighouse [2]. A political philosopher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
- Daniel Davies [3]. A financial analyst in the city of London.
- Henry Farrell [4]. A political scientist at George Washington University.
- Maria Farrell [5]. A policy officer at ICANN.
- Eszter Hargittai [6]. A sociologist at Northwestern University.
- Kieran Healy [7]. A sociologist at the University of Arizona.
- John Holbo [8]. A philosopher at the National University of Singapore.
- Jon Mandle [9]. A political philosopher at SUNY Albany.
- Scott McLemee. A writer, critic and academic journalist living in Washington DC.
- Ingrid Robeyns. A political theorist in the Netherlands.
- John Quiggin [10]. An economist at the University of Queensland, Australia.
- Micah Schwartzman [11]. A law student at the University of Virginia.
- Belle Waring [12]. Trained as a Classicist at Berkeley. Living in Singapore.
- Brian Weatherson [13]. A philosopher at Cornell University.
Former members are
- Ted Barlow [14]. An economic consultant in Houston, TX.
- Tom Runnacles [15]. A software developer in the city of London who, in a previous life, studied philosophy at Oxford University.
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