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.

1 History
2 Current members
3 Former members
4 External link

[edit] History

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.

The name alludes to a quotation of Immanuel Kant: "Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made." (Isaiah Berlin also alluded to the same quote in The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas.)

[edit] Current members

Chris Bertram	[1]	Political philosopher at the University of Bristol, UK
Harry Brighouse	[2]	Political philosopher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Daniel Davies	[3]	Financial analyst in the city of London
Henry Farrell	[4]	Political scientist at George Washington University
Maria Farrell	[5]	Policy officer at ICANN
Eszter Hargittai	[6]	Sociologist at Northwestern University
Kieran Healy	[7]	Sociologist at the University of Arizona
John Holbo	[8]	Philosopher at the National University of Singapore
Jon Mandle	[9]	Political philosopher at SUNY Albany
Scott McLemee	[10]	Writer, Inside Higher Education
John Quiggin	[11]	Economist at the University of Queensland, Australia
Ingrid Robeyns	[12]	Postdoctoral researcher, University of Amsterdam
Micah Schwartzman	[13]	Fellow at the Columbia University Society of Fellows
Belle Waring	[14]	Trained as a Classicist at Berkeley; living in Singapore
Brian Weatherson	[15]	A philosopher at Cornell University

[edit] Former members

Ted Barlow	[16]	Economic consultant in Houston, TX
Tom Runnacles	[17]	Software developer in the city of London, previously studied philosophy at Oxford University