Things I liked from 2012
by Jake Wobig
I’m seeing a lot of blog posts today taking a retrospective look at 2012, so I thought I’d make a list of some of my favorite web finds from the year.
Favorite Blog Post: Xavier Marquez “The Great Norm Shift and the Triumph of Universal Suffrage”
See also “A Very Short Quantitative History Democracy, Dictatorship and Other Political Regimes”
Another favorite blog post: Jay Ulfelder “211 Years of Political Evolution in 60 Seconds”
Favorite academic book: Francis Fukuyama, “The Origins of Political Order”
Favorite fun book: Neil Gaiman, “American Gods”
Favorite New Band / Album: Divine Fits / “A Thing Called Divine Fits”
Favorite music video: Woodkid, “Run Boy Run”
Favorite podcast: Freakonomics, “The Upside of Quitting” (recorded in 2011, but I heard it this year)
Favorite Tweet: Jessica Link, commentary on presidential debates
Favorite Tumblr: When in Academia
Favorite Meme: Grumpy Cat
Favorite funny video: Dragon Baby
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Thanks, Jake! I’ll pile on the love for Xavier Marquez and flag his post on Mao and the cult of personality as a favorite of mine: http://abandonedfootnotes.blogspot.com/2012/10/ten-thousand-melodies-cannot-express.html. And then there was Nils Gilmans’ long-view post on global warming, “Periodizing the Anthropocene”: http://smallprecautions.blogspot.com/2012/06/periodizing-anthropocene.html.
My pleasure, and thanks for the Gilman post, I had missed that one.