Mihir BaxiWeek 6: Part 6, the epilogue, and who we choose to be*spoilers ahead*Jan 30, 2021Jan 30, 2021
Mihir BaxiWeek 5: Part 5 and photos of a snowy LondonMarmaladov’s wife hosts a post-funeral banquet, and is hoping to use the event to show her neighbours that she even though she was widowed…Jan 24, 2021Jan 24, 2021
Mihir BaxiSlightly different visualisations of Covid dataTypically, a country’s daily confirmed coronavirus cases and deaths are visualised in a manner similar to the graph below. Time is shown…Jan 22, 2021Jan 22, 2021
Mihir BaxiWeek 4: more plot-buildingIn the last 4 weeks of reading Crime and Punishment (which has gotten less and less daunting with each chapter, reducing the need for me…Jan 17, 2021Jan 17, 2021
Mihir BaxiWeek 3: guiding philosophiesPart 3 of Crime and Punishment introduces the reader to Raskolnikov’s mother and sister, who have travelled to St. Petersburg on the…Jan 10, 2021Jan 10, 2021
Mihir BaxiWeek 2: on Part 2 and living in a tranceSome notes on Part 2 of Crime and Punishment, and some issues about digital platformsJan 3, 2021Jan 3, 2021
Mihir BaxiWeek 1: on Part 1 and Covid-19 in the UKI realised while writing this that I hadn’t established a method of cataloguing these weekly posts. So I’ll be numbering the weeks that I…Dec 27, 2020Dec 27, 2020
Mihir BaxiGetting through Franklin in an age of incompetencetl/dr: I’m about to start reading Crime and Punishment and writing updates about it and about current events on a regular basis is going to…Dec 20, 2020Dec 20, 2020
Mihir BaxiA short note about DemographicsThe sustained linear growth of the human population over the last 2 centuries has been startling. The usual rhetoric in conversations about…Jun 20, 2018Jun 20, 2018
Mihir BaxiUS Trade policy: A return to MercantilismAt a point in his presidential campaign when Donald Trump wanted to speak substantively about China, he provided his son-in-law and now…Apr 1, 2018Apr 1, 2018
