politics

105 posts

  1. Do we need *more* radical Islam? - Marginal REVOLUTION
  2. The Seven Habits of Highly Depolarizing People
  3. The Oxy Epidemic Shows What Happens When Addictive Drugs Are Easily Available | Mother Jones
  4. The Politics of Empathy and the Politics of Technology — The Message
  5. Twitter distorts internet writers’ understanding of reality
  6. The Spiritual Shape of Political Ideas
  7. Interesting villain-in-prison cliché to see popping up recently
  8. Whole Foods: America’s Temple of Pseudoscience
  9. Outrage | The Point Magazine
  10. In Conversation: Antonin Scalia
  11. In Climbing Income Ladder, Location Matters - NYTimes.com
  12. These Aren’t the PRISMs You’re Looking For
  13. The Problem With Public Shaming | The Nation
  14. The Ecology of Obesity | Newgeography.com
  15. Most of them are just living their lives
  16. Conspiracy is a nearly irresistible labor-saving device
  17. There's Little We Can Do to Prevent Another Massacre - The Daily Beast
  18. Fighting Continues Over World's Holiest Bombing Sites | The Onion
  19. How a Smart Conservative Would Reform FEMA - Jordan Weissmann - The Atlantic
  20. A Bet is a Tax on Bullshit
  21. Los Angeles Review of Books - Happiness Is A Warm Glock: Paul Barrett On America’s Gun
  22. Makers vs. takers
  23. I feel like inspiring political moments are spank-material for typesetters
  24. Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred
  25. You can never be both a writer and a politician – at least not a good writer
  26. Don’t Bring Policy to a Culture Fight | Easily Distracted
  27. The Naked and the TED
  28. Why Our Elites Stink - NYTimes.com
  29. John Lewis, OG
  30. Country Music, Openness to Experience, and the Psychology of Culture War | Big Think
  31. I’m not very interested in political satire
  32. The long sentence is how we begin to free ourselves
  33. The Wrong Inequality - NYTimes.com
  34. The apparent practical success of capitalism is matched only by the failure…
  35. It is hardly surprising to find that the two areas of human enterprise most…
  36. Martin Luther King Jr. National Memorial Opens in Washington - NYTimes.com
  37. Why are we in this debt fix? It’s the elderly, stupid. - The Washington Post
  38. After 9/11: The limits of remembrance—By David Rieff (Harper's Magazine)
  39. It’s hard to beat the entertainment value of people who deliberately…
  40. Breaking down the Situation Room - The Washington Post
  41. If you want to understand foreign policy, read history, not the newspaper
  42. Why I'm a pacifist: The dangerous myth of the Good War - By Nicholson Baker (Harper's Magazine)
  43. The University of Twitter: a short course in Political Philosophy in 7 parts…
  44. What It’s Like to Work for Donald Rumsfeld - Alexis Madrigal - The Atlantic
  45. Potlatch: The Politics of the Thumb
  46. Astroturfing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  47. About Costa Rica, Nicaragua, their mutual border, and Google | Ogle Earth
  48. Marginal Revolution: Does the well-off law professor have cause to complain?
  49. The 72-Hour Expert
  50. TMR: An Interview with George Saunders
  51. The 2010 Failed States Index
  52. Reflexiones del Comandante en Jefe
  53. Pitchfork: Why We Fight #4 - The Trouble With Maya
  54. Alex Webb, people playing volleyball using the border fence between Arizona…
  55. The Limits of Bioethics: Where the profession ends and politics begins
  56. CARPE DIEM: Heavy Hitters: Top 100 Rent Seekers 1989-2010
  57. Wall Street conspiracy theories dissected, defined
  58. Overcoming Bias: Key Disputed Values
  59. Mixed company moderates; like-minded company polarizes
  60. Marginal Revolution: What is conservatism?
  61. Marginal Revolution: What is progressivism?
  62. The general glut of information and opinion makes it disconcertingly easy…
  63. Edge: What makes people vote Republican?
  64. William Shatner Reads Palin’s Speech as Poetry
  65. Jay-Z vs the Game: Lessons for the American Primacy Debate
  66. A Theory of Capitalism & Socialism (review: 4.5/5)
  67. Lowest quintile: 4.3 percent Second quintile: 9.9 percent Middle quintile…
  68. Crisis & Leviathan (review: 5/5)
  69. Scandal is our growth industry
  70. Forty Four Presidents, a minicomic
  71. It's the Economy, Stupid!
  72. The poetry of Donald Rumsfeld, via Austin Kleon
  73. Let’s make a trailer for what that movie would look like
  74. Reason Magazine has a great illustrated flowchart showing how hard it is
  75. The effects of hair parts on the 2008 Presidential race
  76. Anarchist Theory FAQ
  77. King Corn
  78. Drivers of cars with bumper stickers
  79. the greatest anti-poverty campaign the world has ever known
  80. If Charles Joseph Minard were following the Clinton/Obama superdelegate battle
  81. interview with Bill Bishop
  82. America's political class is far worse
  83. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water (review: 5/5)
  84. Really enjoyed the Frontline feature Bush's War
  85. Some behind-the-scenes video journalism from North Korea
  86. The U.S. Terrorist Watch List Has More Than 900,000 People
  87. The Story of Stuff, a big-picture overview of consumption
  88. democracy is a very blunt instrument
  89. Political Candidates Talking About “Change”
  90. Clinton/Obama handshake controversy
  91. An essay on the past and the future of marriage
  92. Uncounted: The New Math of American Elections
  93. Arnold Kling on politics and cults
  94. A plea for more anthropology of ideology
  95. How clean is the electricity I use?
  96. George W. Bush is a hipster
  97. Making Memes
  98. The 9/11 Report: A Graphical Adaptation (review: 2/5)
  99. disengaged from ideological discussions
  100. Design Observer discusses the pluralist European Union anniversary logo
  101. What you need is a helpful Venn Diagram
  102. hosting a secessionist convention
  103. Radar surveys the 8 worst hair trends on Capitol Hill
  104. The Law (review: 5/5)
  105. Lately it has become the "in" font for websites