Colin Danby
@cdanby.bsky.social
Heterodox economist working in history of thought, specifically the commerce between body, nation, race, and economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He/him.
https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/colindanby/home
Photo by Stephanie Seguino
https://sites.google.com/uw.edu/colindanby/home
Photo by Stephanie Seguino
A good walk during a break in the rain.
Max keeps a mental list of houses with big barking dogs, and visits as many as he can.
Max keeps a mental list of houses with big barking dogs, and visits as many as he can.
November 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
A good walk during a break in the rain.
Max keeps a mental list of houses with big barking dogs, and visits as many as he can.
Max keeps a mental list of houses with big barking dogs, and visits as many as he can.
November 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Summers and Epstein were networkers. That’s the work of their e-mails: building and tending personal ties, shaping and renewing an elite.
Same with the eugenics movement a century ago. Irving Fisher wrote, but also organized. This is from the front-matter of his 1916 _How to Live_.
Same with the eugenics movement a century ago. Irving Fisher wrote, but also organized. This is from the front-matter of his 1916 _How to Live_.
November 16, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Summers and Epstein were networkers. That’s the work of their e-mails: building and tending personal ties, shaping and renewing an elite.
Same with the eugenics movement a century ago. Irving Fisher wrote, but also organized. This is from the front-matter of his 1916 _How to Live_.
Same with the eugenics movement a century ago. Irving Fisher wrote, but also organized. This is from the front-matter of his 1916 _How to Live_.
How did that become this?
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
How did that become this?
Greetings from our Max to yours.
November 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Greetings from our Max to yours.
Max checks out the camera.
He's rolled in something out back and TBH kind of stinks right now, but he's adorable as ever.
He's rolled in something out back and TBH kind of stinks right now, but he's adorable as ever.
November 4, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Max checks out the camera.
He's rolled in something out back and TBH kind of stinks right now, but he's adorable as ever.
He's rolled in something out back and TBH kind of stinks right now, but he's adorable as ever.
Thanks so much for your work here! You've been a ray of scholarly sunshine.
Dogs in library:
Dogs in library:
November 3, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Thanks so much for your work here! You've been a ray of scholarly sunshine.
Dogs in library:
Dogs in library:
In the contest for the lap, Marty is larger but Max is more persistent.
October 31, 2025 at 7:14 PM
In the contest for the lap, Marty is larger but Max is more persistent.
Max solving for equilibrium.
October 28, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Max solving for equilibrium.
Of course. It was easy to be monarchist while this guy's mother, a skilled performer, was on the throne.
But the regular occurrence of dreadful, even horrible monarchs has been understood since forever, no? So clearly the case for monarchy doesn't rest on individual excellence.
But the regular occurrence of dreadful, even horrible monarchs has been understood since forever, no? So clearly the case for monarchy doesn't rest on individual excellence.
October 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Of course. It was easy to be monarchist while this guy's mother, a skilled performer, was on the throne.
But the regular occurrence of dreadful, even horrible monarchs has been understood since forever, no? So clearly the case for monarchy doesn't rest on individual excellence.
But the regular occurrence of dreadful, even horrible monarchs has been understood since forever, no? So clearly the case for monarchy doesn't rest on individual excellence.
Chaos reigned as friends joined us for both Diwali and Kukur Tihar.
October 21, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Chaos reigned as friends joined us for both Diwali and Kukur Tihar.
Now we're having a nap.
October 18, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Now we're having a nap.
October 18, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Max, militant at University Village.
October 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Max, militant at University Village.
I listen while I'm taking Max and Marty for walks.
October 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I listen while I'm taking Max and Marty for walks.
Not many people could pull off this.
October 9, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Not many people could pull off this.
I love the weight, the materiality of the halo in Byzantine painting. The wispy halos in later painting never seem quite right.
October 9, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I love the weight, the materiality of the halo in Byzantine painting. The wispy halos in later painting never seem quite right.
