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Bret Devereaux

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Bret Devereaux

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Bret Devereaux is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 5 times across 5 issues between April 11, 2021 and September 24, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “as well as wider celebrities like Bret Devereaux”; “Bret Devereaux writes here about the oddities of the academic job market”; “Bret Devereaux is, in his own way, a superstar and a household name”. It most often appears alongside Devereaux, Tyler Cowen, Wikipedia.

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  • Category: People
  • Mention count: 5
  • Issue count: 5
  • First seen: April 11, 2021
  • Last seen: September 24, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

Open Thread 167
April 11, 2021 · Original source
3: Russell Hogg reports having an ACX-adjacent podcast, Subject To Change, which has interviewed people like Bean and David Friedman, as well as wider celebrities like Bret Devereaux, Tyler Cowen, Agnes Callard, etc.
Inline links: Subject To Change
Why Is The Academic Job Market So Weird?
May 17, 2023 · Original source
Bret Devereaux writes here about the oddities of the academic job market.
Inline links: writes
Highlights From The Comments On The Academic Job Market
June 06, 2023 · Original source
This sort of makes sense, but I’m confused by the “superstar” claim. Bret Devereaux is, in his own way, a superstar and a household name. He’s probably one of a tiny handful of academic historians I (and many other people) have heard of. This obviously is not the kind of superstardom colleges want; they seem to be going for papers in top journals only.
Book Review: Cyropaedia
January 10, 2024 · Original source
Xenophon’s view of Persia - they were great because they were hard men who resisted decadence - is what historian-blogger Bret Devereaux calls “The Fremen Mirage”. Devereaux is against this. He has a long, very interesting series on how this trope gets called up to serve various unsavory agendas, but in real life settled “decadent” states usually beat hard “manly” barbarians. Sure, some barbarians eventually conquered the Western Roman Empire. But before that happened, the Romans conquered hundreds of barbarian tribes in the process of taking the entire Mediterranean region and holding it for hundreds of years. The score is still settled states 100, barbarians 1. And this is a typical record - look at China, the Middle East, etc, and you will find a similar pattern.
Inline links: historian-blogger Bret Devereaux calls “The Fremen Mirage”
How Often Do Men Think About Rome?
September 24, 2024 · Original source
This meme, shared IIRC by Tanner Greer or Bret Devereaux.
Inline links: This meme
I read Bret Devereaux's blog, which is usually what gets me thinking about it.
Reading Bret Devereaux's blogpost 'On Roman Values' (I'm a stalwart ACOUP reader)