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Joseph Heath
Personal blog · josephheath.substack.comeconomicspoliticsphilosophy
Joseph Heath writes In Due Course, a personal blog at josephheath.substack.com about economics, politics and philosophy. Since 2023, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “Reproducing civilization: It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-24, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Joseph Heath's Substack as a body of essays. One commenter points to his article on Iain Banks' Culture series, which is well known in tech, and calls his writing as a whole excellent.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
My personal Substack.
Most-linked posts?
- Reproducing civilization: It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2026-10-27
- Highbrow Climate Misinformation2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-26
- John Rawls and the Death of Western Marxism2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-30
- Populism Fast and Slow2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-23
What Hacker News says?
This article ( https://josephheath.substack.com/p/why-the-culture-wins-an-a... ) on Iain Banks' the Culture series is very well known in the tech world, but I think all of Heath's writing is excellent and highly underrated.
Comment linking /p/why-the-culture-wins-an-appreciation
on “Curated list of the best Joseph Heath articles – my favourite Canadian thinker”Submitted Populism Fast and Slow as a story · 35 points
HN discussionSubmitted John Rawls and the Death of Western Marxism as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted A simple theory of cancel culture as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSubmitted Harari vs. Henrich: What science says about human evolution as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Populism Fast and Slow as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Some Thoughts on Violence as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted My Two Cents on Abundance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reproducing Civilization as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reproducing civilization: It's a dirty job, but someone has to do it as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted John Rawls and the Death of Western Marxism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Highbrow Climate Misinformation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Decline, What Decline? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Canadians should think of higher education as an export industry as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Critical Theory of (Or for) America as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reproducing Civilization as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Highbrow Climate Misinformation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Key stages in the decline of academic Marxism as a story · 1 points
HN discussion
