LGM's Top Ten posts from 2011: 1 Living a Lie Campos 2 Mystery of Cowardice Campos 3 What is Violent Rhetoric? Kaufman 4 The Many Lies of Joe Paterno Campos 5 The War on Drugs vs. the Constitution Lemieux 6 You Don't Know How Lucky...
Month: December 2011
The blog over at the LSE, British Politics and Policy at LSE, has an interesting post on the relationship between teacher pay and educational attainment outcomes. A fuller summary of the.
Finishing a book manuscript, and so haven't had much time for serious blogging recently. Nevertheless, would like to drag everyone's attention to Dmitry Gorenburg's excellent series on Russia's military relationship.
Erm... awkward... Five thousand Irish soldiers who swapped uniforms to fight for the British against Hitler went on to suffer years of persecution. One of them, 92-year-old Phil Farrington, took part in the D-Day landings and helped liberate the German death camp at Bergen-Belsen - but...
Excellent Peter Birkenhead piece at Alternet on the exclusion of slavery on private plantation home tours in the South. Slave cabins are being turned into spas and restaurants rather than.
Douglas Bevington's 2009 book explores how grassroots environmental organizations reinvigorated the environmental movement through their focus on biodiversity and its aggressive litigation strategy over political alliances and mass mailing funding.
Shorter Bobo: "There are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. Also, too much premarital sex. I am not a crackpot."
Without further comment, the great Carl Wilson on Pitchfork's Album of the Year (and Richard Bruckner): Which brings me round, if only because you asked, to Bon Iver. I see.
Yglesias is dead on that the best way for people to "invest" in their retirement is a functioning social security system. The average person probably doesn't have the time, skills,.
Looks like little Ricky might get a decent showing in Iowa on the road to oblivion. I definitely expect him to beat Newt.
It's typical that The Economist would spend a bunch of space in its story on how Belgium came to dominate the world beer market on the worst beer to come.
On this date in 1869, the Knights of Labor were founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The organization grew slowly, but by the late 1870s, the Knights had become the nation's largest.