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Yearly Archives: 2009

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  • 16 Sep 2009

    Harold Vogel on Universal & Disney’s latest attractions

    Entertainment Industry Economist Harold Vogel comments to Reuters on Universal’s new theme park venture — a 20 acre Harry Potter section. In the same article, Draco Malfoy tells us that it will “blow some serious minds.”

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  • 15 Sep 2009

    What is Socialism in 2009?

    The New York Times Room for Debate blog asks this very question. And our own Terence Ball responds with a surprising fact: the writer of the Pledge of Allegiance was Socialist. Read it >>

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  • 14 Sep 2009

    Hetherington & Weiler on The State of Things

    Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler, authors of Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics were interviewed for WUNC's The State of Things.

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  • 11 Sep 2009

    Therapy After Terror

    The New York Times today interviewed psychologists and therapists about the jarring changes in their daily practices in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

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  • 10 Sep 2009

    American Political Science Association 2009

    APSA. When I first heard talk of it, I was amazed at how those four little letters could make even the most seasoned marketing associates quiver in fear. "How hard could it be?" I thought.

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  • 9 Sep 2009

    Judson’s Round-up of Darwin Goodness

    Lots of Darwin this year, and Olivia Judson has the round-up, including the new movie.

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  • 9 Sep 2009
    Stephen Sheppard

    There IS Precedent for a torture investigation

    Writing for FindLaw, Stephen Sheppard, author of 'I Do Solemnly Swear: The Moral Obligations of Legal Officials', demonstrates that we have plenty of historical precedent for investigating former administrations in the US.

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  • 8 Sep 2009

    Why the rising tuition costs?

    The New York Times spoke with Burton Weisbrod, author of Mission and Money on rising tuition costs. “Am I, for example, as a tenured professor or any tenured faculty member necessarily, or even probably, a better undergraduate teacher because I am doing research? The answer to that is not clear at all.”

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