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Politics and Personality

via The New York Times, from Nicholas Kristof’s Our Politics May Be All in Our Head: We all know that liberals and conservatives are far apart on health care. But in the way their brains work? Even...

15 Feb 2010

Whatley on the Tea Party Movement and Authoritarianism

In his Huffington Post column, Whatley draws on the work of our own Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler to describe some dimensions of the Tea Party Movement: In Authoritarianism & Polarization in...

11 Feb 2010

What Ukraine’s Election Means for Democracy

Via Foreign Affairs, Lucan Way author of Competitive Authoritarianism on Ukraine’s still-disputed election. In 2004, the world watched as the Orange Revolution unfolded in Ukraine, pitting an insurgent,...

Lucan Way | 9 Feb 2010

What articles get shared?

The New York Times reports on a Penn-Wharton School study of what makes an article get shared most, or go “viral.” The results are surprising and refreshing. Apparently, you guys like science!...

9 Feb 2010

Dictionary of Irish Biography wins major award!

The massive, comprehensive Dictionary of Irish Biography was awarded the 2009 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) for Best Multivolume Reference work in the Humanities...

8 Feb 2010

Americans and Big Government

Via Marshall Poe’s New Books in History, featuring Brian Balogh’s A Government Out of Sight. Americans don’t like “big government” right? Not exactly. In the Early Republic (1789 to the...

8 Feb 2010

Wallace on St. Peter’s restoration

When restoration of a Michelangelo painting in St. Peter’s at the Vatican revealed the later addition of some elements, the resulting dispute pit art against theology and history. Michelangelo expert...

1 Feb 2010

Michael Ruse’s Spelling Test

via Brainstorm Health-care reform is set to become my King Charles’s Head. I am going to find it difficult to write anything without it coming up in the middle. Fifty-seven million people in the...

Michael Ruse | 28 Jan 2010

Science and Money

Where does the buck stop? The NYT TierneyLab looks at science and money, along with all of the attendant “conflicts of interest” between sound science and the money tied up in it. Read here...

26 Jan 2010

Editing the History of Canadian Literature

Manuela Constantino of the quarterly Canadian Literature picked the perfect interview subjects for their latest issue: editors and contributors from The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature, including...

25 Jan 2010

Descartes: The Dutch Connection

We think of René Descartes as a French philosopher given that he was born in La Haye, France. Descartes, however, felt most at home among the Dutch. In 1618 he joined the army of the Dutch commander,...

Helen Hattab | 21 Jan 2010

Balogh Interviewed on With Good Reason

Historian Brian Balogh was recently interviewed on With Good Reason, discussing the (surprisingly) active 19th century government that laid the foundation for America’s rise. Listen >> Read More ?

20 Jan 2010