Art and Photography:
Christopher Carr
Jack Jerz
Kevin Kato
Peter Blinman
]]>Joseph Cox is a graduate of Duke University who has been described variously as an “internet addict,” a “nerd” and a “smooth player, who is only understood by his momma.” While his politics are slightly left of center, he values heterodoxy and always attempts to deconstruct why he believes things through metacognition and a broad reading list. His firm conviction is that conventional wisdom is frequently wrong, and many revolutionary ideas of today are the pragmatic solutions of the future.
He founded The Inductive hoping that by getting the interesting people he knows (even if he doesn't always agree with them) to write here he can push the limits of what is usually connected with public policy and kill some sacred cows. Because if you’ve never had sacred cow, its divine with béarnaise.
Editor-in-Chief:
Christopher Carr lives in Fukushima, Japan and feels his expatriate lifestyle provides him with unique insights into American society and politics. He works to varying degrees as an English teacher, technical writer, translator, web designer, journalist, photographer, copy writer, anthropologist, professional gambler, private investor, armchair philosopher, and drugstore scientist; and he is totally undistinguished in all of these fields.
Chris sees occupational well-roundedness and intentional diverse juxtapositioning of interests as increasingly valuable in an age of hyperspecialization in which the singularity or some new and unpredictable emergent order may or may not be near. After his tenure as Editor-in-Chief of The Inductive, Chris plans on pursuing a Doctorate of Medicine.
Chris has avid interests in mountainclimbing, skiing, spending time with his stepson and two daughters, Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, exploring the internet, reading, and listening to MIT Open Course Ware. Chris is firmly committed to a soft form of individual responsibility, individual rights, and equality of opportunity; he distrusts all forms of political-ideological or intellectual labeling and collectivism. His goal in life has always been to travel to outer space.
Chris's work has been published in the Undergraduate Quarterly, the Duke Journal of Economics, 30 Words, The League of Ordinary Gentlemen, Front Porch Republic, Travel. Write. Drink Plenty of Fluids, and Expat Arrivals.
Managing Editor:
Kevin Kato began writing at the ripe age of seven, penning a sappy poem while staring out his bedroom window at the rain. Since then he has dipped his quill into a variety of literary pursuits including short stories, novels, memoirs, travel essays, and more sappy poetry. With a particular fondness for artistic creativity in writing, Kevin aims to present his views on travel and expat life in unique and memorable ways. Accordingly, he has a strong aversion to conventional wisdom and cliché (as well as most pop music).
Once hell-bent on becoming a criminal profiler for the FBI, Kevin’s ambitions now lie in finding a place he and his family can confidently call home while they continue to travel the globe. Financial independence through writing wouldn’t be too bad either; to this end Kevin established his own publishing company in 2010 and is presently working on his third book-length project.
Managing Editor:
Josh Weinstein graduated from Duke University in 2006 with a degree in biology, and spent three years at a strategy consulting firm in Boston called Investor Group Services. At the end of 2009, he joined the Fellows program with an organization called Kiva and was sent to work in the Philippines with Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation, a Grameen-affiliated organization with a commitment to reducing poverty and expanding credit to all people. Grameen Bank and its affiliates believe access to credit is a fundamental human right, and Negros Women follows this creed.
After a year in Southeast Asia, he moved to West Africa to work for an organization called Technoserve. He worked as a consultant to the private sector agriculture industry as part of the ADVANCE project (Agriculture Development and Value Chain Enhancement) in Ghana, whose mission is to transform the agriculture sector through increased competitiveness. There, he focused primarily on market and supply chain analysis, business plan consulting, and improving access to financing for small farmers throughout Ghana.
Currently, Josh resides in Nairobi working as a consultant to Bridge International Academies, a chain of low-fee private schools serving the urban poor.
]]>Permanent Blogs:
Specific Facts: consisting of specific policy recommendations or reactions to news stories in the Western Analytic tradition
General Principles: consisting of general musings or broad criticism in the Western Continental tradition
Temporary Blogs:
Dispatches from the Wild Wild East: focused on Japan, travel, the expatriate experience, pedagogy and language
"The empires of the future will be empires of the mind." - Winston Churchill
"It's true that the internet has reactivated the grass-roots of an egalitarian public sphere of writers and readers. It also counterbalances the deficits from the impersonal and asymmetrical character of broadcasting insofar as it reintroduces deliberative elements in communication. Besides that, it can undermine the censorship of authoritarian regimes. But the rise of millions of fragmented discussions across the world tend instead to lead to fragmentation of audiences into isolated publics." - Jurgen Habermas's fake Twitter
loosely concerned with how technologies affect human societies
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Past Posts about The Inductive:
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