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Apparently this is a political science classic. If I remember right the context was intensity of political opinion compared with number of people with an opinion (enthusiasm gap and all that).

Saw this at a @berkeleymorris@sfba.social rehearsal and, well the title at least has me intrigued.

The story of the Luddites gets thrown around so much that I suspect it would be interesting to find out about it in more detail. I'm guessing I'll be surprised about who I find to be the sympathetic characters and who I don't.

Having already listened to the Revolutions podcast (from the same author), the most interesting part of the book for me was the period between the fall of Napolean and the revolution of 1830. This period is often seen as a quiet interlude between major events, and I suppose in some way it is, but this book makes it clear that the struggle between liberals and conservatives in France was actively underway then and Lafayette was in the middle of a decent amount of it. Of course the book covers the rest of Lafayete's life too but that period was the most fascinating for me.

Well I know someone who was using this as a source for the Thyrsus (which is some kind of staff-like object associated with Dionysus) but other than that the book goes on my list (at least of books to keep an eye out for) pretty much just based on the title.

I have several books, or online sources for this material and to be honest the number one thing which stands out for Margaris is pages 89–90 which list theorems of predicate logic. So helpful to see those stated explicitly.

Just saw this recommended and I realized that I know a little bit about our pioneers in various areas of politics but not enough.

Recommended on the Hacks On Tap podcast. Apparently there's a lot of backstory to Lincoln being Republican nominee at the 1860 convention.

Who knew that Bentham had written about sexuality and the regulation thereof at so much length?

Recommended by Mike Murphy on the Hacks On Tap podcast