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• service and civic engagement

  
  orgtheory.net — Authority: 486
  The NY Times recently profiled an article  in the newest issue of Social Forces by Doug McAdam and Cynthia Brandt, “Assessing the Long-term Effects of Youth Service: The Puzzling Case of Teach for America.” I haven’t got my hands on the actual paper yet but the Times essay reveals some interesting ...
  12 hours ago

• Chertoff and Sageman on the Latest Terror Threats

  
  Penn Press Log — Authority: 114
  As if the Fort Hood shootings werent enough, the failed Christmas Day airline bombing attempt here in the U. S. and recent deadly terrorist attacks abroad have renewed the focus on dealing with extremists. Penn Press authors Michael Chertoff and Marc Sagemen have responded in the news media, providing informed ...
  12 hours ago

• Omar completes a year, has many promises to keep

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Srinagar, Jan 5 (IANS) As Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah completed one year in office Tuesday, the journey so far has been anything but smooth for the young leader.There have been many highs and lows during Abdullah’s one year in office, yet many believe that the duration is too short to pass [...]
  19 hours ago

• 14:59 and counting

  
  dustbury.com — Authority: 546
  Political tomes, says Lisa, don’t have much staying power: Even the best written political books have the shelf life of whipcream in an 80 degree room. I know, I’ve bought hundreds right when they hit the store and were hot, read them immediately, tried to sell them back to the used bookstore within the week, ...
  2 days ago

• slidin’ from eisenhower to palin

  
  orgtheory.net — Authority: 486
  A few weeks ago, Ilya Somin at Volokh compared  Palin to Eisenhower , thinking that Palin might be playing dumb. [ Update : Ilya clarifies his position in the comments.] Of course, Somin was promptly slammed . But this got me to thinking: what should we think about the cognitive abilities of political leaders? ...
  2 days ago

• Conversations with History

  
  The Do It Yourself Scholar — Authority: 118
  If you want more than the usual media storylines about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and foreign policy in general, check out Conversations with History (website, iTunes, Youtube), a TV program from the Institute of International Studies at University of California, Berkeley. Harry Kreisler, host and producer of ...
  2 days ago

• Newsweek editor in Buddha controversy

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  By Sudeshna SarkarKathmandu, Jan 2 (IANS) A year after Bollywood film “Chandni Chowk to China” triggered an uproar in Nepal with its claim that Gautam Buddha, the founder of Buddhism, was born in India, an internationally acclaimed journalist and author has stoked the controversy afresh.Fareed Zakaria, editor of ...
  4 days ago

• New book: Virtualpolitik

  
  media/anthropology — Authority: 125
  An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes Elizabeth Losh May 2009, MIT 7 x 9, 416 pp., 71 illus. $29.95/£19.95 (CLOTH) Today government agencies not only have official Web sites but also sponsor moderated chats, blogs, digital video ...
  4 days ago

• Coming attractions at UCSD and UC Berkeley

  
  The Do It Yourself Scholar — Authority: 118
  At the University of California, San Diego classes begin on Monday, January 4. You can get an idea of the coming attractions at the UCSD podcast website. Some of my favorite professors will be back in podcast land.Historian Matthew Herbst will be teaching Byzantine Empire (feed).  He taught some wonderful survey ...
  5 days ago

• Seen in tents

  
  dustbury.com — Authority: 546
  We begin with a song by Slade : See chameleon Lying there in the sun All things to everyone Run runaway The antithesis of “all things to everyone” was Ronald Reagan, as Robert Stacy McCain tells it: Reagan’s “Big Tent” approach has been misunderstood and misapplied by many of his would-be ...
  5 days ago

• Nation building in Iraq: success or failure?

  
  The Do It Yourself Scholar — Authority: 118
  Did “the surge” work? Is Iraq on its way to becoming a beacon of democracy and economic transparency in the Middle East?In a word, no. That’s the dispiriting take-home lesson from political scientist Pete W. Moore’s lecture American Nation-State Building and Iraq (website, iTunes).Moore, associate professor of ...
  6 days ago

• Toad Busters banned from gassing pests

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  A group fighting to keep cane toads out of Western Australias Kimberley says it is being stopped from using carbon dioxide to gas the pests because bureaucrats have told them it is too cruel. Kimberley Toad Busters has labelled the Department of Environment and Conservations (DEC) refusal to sanction the use of ...
  6 days ago

• This explains everything

  
  dustbury.com — Authority: 546
  The Department of Homeland Security, suggests Xrlq, has something in mind other than mere security of the homeland: My money says [Janet] Napolitano’s crazy talk is designed not to reassure the public that flying is safe, but to cut greenhouse gases by scaring the crap out of the traveling public so no one will ...
  6 days ago

• Is JD Hayworth a Rino Hunter or Poser? Or should John McCain be given a free pass this election?

  
  Sonoran Alliance — Authority: 446
  This in today.  There is to be a conference call in which the doctrine outlined in the Victory Plan Draf will be ratified.  This appears to be being done outside of AzGOP State Mandatory Meeting slated for next month.  Now who could be behind this nefarious plot?  Hmm… maybe the man who brought us President ...
  6 days ago

• A world without nuclear weapons?

  
  Marginal Revolution — Authority: 736
  Thomas Schelling -- who remains a master of cool, insightful analysis, has a new essay on this question .  Such a world would not be a picnic.  Here is one good excerpt: In summary, a "world without nuclear weapons" would be a world in whichthe United States, Russia, Israel, China, and half a dozen or a ...
  1 week ago

• Why hasnt the Fed been targeting two or three percent inflation?

  
  Marginal Revolution — Authority: 736
  Ive been thinking about this question more and Ive come up with a speculative possibility.  Right now banks are earning their way back into profitability by playing the spread.  Theyre paying close to zero on deposits and earning fair sums on long-term loans.  Perhaps this term structure is sustainable because ...
  1 week ago

• Communist or conservative? It may be in your genes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 731
  Washington, Dec 29 (IANS) Did you know that genetics plays a vital role in shaping your political orientation?Political party identification (PID) is among the most studied concepts in modern political science. Scholars have long held that PID was the result of socialisation factors, including parental socialisation. ...
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• Getting Rid of Books

  
  Jacob Christensen — Authority: 119
  I hope Fred Bass and “The Editors” will forgive me for lifting his advice about getting rid of books : My advice is to first clean out duplicates and books with repetitive information — why do you need six dictionaries? Next, remove all books with out-of-date information, like atlases and reference books. ...
  1 week ago

• Invictus and the Next 25 Years: Affirmative Action in the US and South Africa

  
  University of Michigan Press Blog — Authority: 115
    The University of Michigan Press new release The Next Twenty-five Years explores an important branch of the continuing racial tensions portrayed in films like Clint Eastwoods "Invictus" (Latin for "unconquered"), launching a penetrating exploration of affirmative actions continued ...
  1 week ago

• Kailua brouhaha

  
  dustbury.com — Authority: 546
  I’m one of those people who believes that you spend as much as you damn well please on your vacation, so I’m not going to get too bent out of shape at the idea that the President and his family are spending some ginormous sum for a trip to Hawaii . It’s December , fercrissake; Hawaii can ask that kind of ...
  1 week ago

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