Contingent Thoughts is just what it says: ideas set down in a specific context, a particular juncture, that may prove wrong or evolve. My main subject is culture and technology. My approach is historical and personal.
Being a child of the Cold War, a former college history instructor, and currently an instructional technologist, I have wide-ranging interests, look for connections, and am interested in how culture and technology intersect.
A newsletter on economics, geopolitics and history from Adam Tooze. More substantial than the twitter feed. More freewheeling than what you might read from me in FT, Foreign Policy, New Statesman.
Liberal, irreverent, opposed to extremism on all sides. Run by a snooty Brit, but based in Washington DC.