Mihir BaxiWeek 6: Part 6, the epilogue, and who we choose to be*spoilers ahead*5 min read·Jan 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…3 min read·Jan 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…5 min read·Jan 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…2 min read·Jan 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…5 min read·Jan 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 platforms7 min read·Jan 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…7 min read·Dec 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…3 min read·Dec 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…5 min read·Jun 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…8 min read·Apr 1, 2018----