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From The Huffington Post comes a review of Sean Theriault’s Party Polarization in Congress. We’re certainly not post-partisan yet. As Julian Zelizer explains in his Book Corner, there are “two traditional views of polarization”: ‘The first view might be described as the “throw the bums out” prescription. This is the most satisfying for many voters […]
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Historian of ideas and long-time Cambridge author Quentin Skinner gave a long interview last year about the many aspects of his research, academic culture, and Cambridge over the last 40 years. One of my colleagues just pointed it out. How he got his start was is a pretty amazing story in and of itself: ‘My […]
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Things have changed, haven’t they? Months ago, we were arguing over universities hoarding their endowments even as tuition prices increased. Then endowments took massive hits and even Harvard terminated 50 money managers. I haven’t heard much about it since. Burton Weisbrod has always argued against requiring universities to pay out a fixed portion of endowments […]
Read MoreRichard Florida (The Rise of the Creative Class) wrote an interesting long piece in The Atlantic focusing on the shocks to urban areas as high finance crumbles. Will the big job losses mean that the center of gravity in the financial world shifts elsewhere? For Dr. Florida, probably not. He cites Cambridge author Yousef Cassis […]
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Peter Day interviewed Richard Bronk yesterday for BBC Radio 4 World Business. Bronk clarified what it means to apply Romantic sentiment to economics, and where it diverges from simple behavioral science. Here’s the clip >>
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200 years ago today, Charles Darwin was born. Who better to wish him a happy birthday than his own sister? There’s more family news [omitted] in the letter, but I was especially charmed by a middle-section about the only thing a certain young “Parky” remembers about uncle Charles. Oh, and here’s a drawing of Darwin […]
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Northeast rep Mary Beth Barilla visits an old favorite in Providence When I’m on the road, I often listen to news radio, and in January, the news was a bit depressing. Sure, Obama took office, but almost every broadcast included grim new forecasts for the economy. I was happy, then, to see that some bookstores […]
Read MoreThey’ve had a rocky relationship in the past, but the Vatican has admitted that Darwin’s theory of evolution is perfectly legitimate, and further, even identifies evolutionary theory at work in the writings of both Augustine and Thomas Aquinas. An article in the Telegraph even points out that the church is downplaying Intelligent Design, discussing it […]
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