Major congratulations to Andrew Hartman!  Last week, five posts from this blog were among the fifty-six nominees for the third annual 3 Quarks Daily Politics and Social Science Prize.  Since we all nominated each other, this was not much of an accomplishment. Over the weekend, Andrew’s post, “‘When the Zulus Produce a Tolstoy We Will Read Him’: Charles Taylor and the Politics of Recognition,” made the list of twenty semi-finalists.  This was nicer…but it was still just a popularity contest among the thousand or so people who dropped by 3QD to vote.  The cut to nine finalists, however, was made Read more