Prompted by the Wisconsin Lutheran story, PTJ at The Duck of Minerva objects to the current state of scholarship in political science: Once people are hired, they also have to figure out what to assign to their students; for that purpose, they need books and articles. Naturally, people want to assig...

A friend of mine pointed me to this recent panel discussion with Daniel Kahneman and Nassim Nicholas Taleb, in which they offer their own unique viewpoints on the financial crisis. It is an exhilarating exchange, and I recommend everyone to watch it. Taleb is an entertaining chap, which is, of cours...

Thomas H. Benton asks: Is being in graduate school like being in a cult? Nevertheless, understanding the varied social experiences of graduate school (student culture as well as formal instruction), as a kind of cult helps to explain why so many people cannot be dissuaded from staying in school R...

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Chazelle explains democracy this way: A empowers B to elect C to serve A (where A=corporations, B=citizens, C=politicians and where corporate media is the empowering vehicle).  This is a pretty radical proposition and has the whiff of Marxism.  The main truth here is that the typical citiz...

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PT Sinomast Mining is a company under Bintang Biru Group. Bintang Biru is a group that has long experience shipping, ship owning, mining, and international trading as well. As every strategic business has independent management yet makes collaboration each other to give a synergy. The company is loc...

Writing a good title is easy ("Alliteration!" James Buchanan once told me). Writing a good abstract is hard. You need to get across the main points of your paper and make them sound interesting in a very compact space. You have to be disciplined and produce a paragraph with a very high signal to noi...

I recently discovered this interview with Robert Pape, in which he discusses his seminal work on the strategic logic of suicide terrorism in rather much detail (I've had an eye on this book for a while, but for some reason never got down to reading it). He summarises his main propositions as fol...

Crumbling schools and lack of adequate enrollment in science and technology courses apparently is not at the top of some of the Georgia legislators list for reforming education. They rather harp on certain misguided notions that ‘moral principles’ of their constituents needs protecting. ...