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What is Transparency?

As the Obama administration calls for more transparency in government, NextGov interviews Archon Fung, author of Full Disclosure about what government (and non-government) transparency really means. ~...

4 Sep 2009

Russian Color Photographs – 1907-1915

A gorgeous Newsweek photo gallery shows never-before-developed photographs of official photographer to the Russian Czar Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii. They were taken between 1907 and 1915 on separate...

3 Sep 2009

CIA and Justice Dept at odds over abuse

An article in the Times outlines growing tensions over possible prosecutions at the CIA. Cambridge published the memos a little while back, in case anyone wishes to do some catching up on the issue. Read More ?

28 Aug 2009

A Route to Sensible Health Care?

Economist Earl Grinols writes for the Galen Institute, spelling out how officials have failed to make important economic distinctions in the current health care debate. Grinols is author of Health Care...

Earl L. Grinols | 28 Aug 2009

Jonathan Weiler on "Healthcare Propaganda"

Jonathan Weiler, co-author of Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics, writes on the healthcare debate in the Huffington Post. —– The New York Times has a front-screen story...

Jonathan Weiler | 26 Aug 2009

Michael Curtis Interviewed on WOCA

Michael Curtis, author of Orientalism and Islam, was interviewed on Florida radio station WOCA yesterday. The podcast is live – click below for their discussion of Islamic government, extremism,...

25 Aug 2009

The Duty of a Death Case Judge

Sharon Keller, Troy Davis, and the Duty of a Death Case Judge Steve Sheppard (from FindLaw), Monday, August 24 No obligation of a judge is more awful than to rule on who should live and who should die...

Stephen Sheppard | 24 Aug 2009

More challenges to Google Books

It’s not over yet! The New York Times today reported on a new challenge to Google’s book scanning project. Read More ?

19 Aug 2009

Samuel Johnson and the Ossian Fraud

3rd Century Gaelic-language poet Ossian lies at the center of a giant case of 18th Century copyright infringement! Well, there wasn’t exactly a copyright involved, let’s call this a case of...

Thomas Curley | 18 Aug 2009

Michael Ruse: New Atheism "A Bloody Disaster"

Writing for BeliefNet, author and philosopher Michael Ruse writes on religion and science, and why New Atheism doesn’t engage either end properly. In my seventieth year I find myself in a very peculiar...

Michael Ruse | 17 Aug 2009

Blame the Fifties?

At NRO’s The Corner, books editor Mike Potemra discusses Alan Petigny’s The Permissive Society. “…much of what the Sixties-haters deplore actually goes back to the Fifties.” Read More ?

17 Aug 2009

Weiler: Critics of Health Bill Describe the Status Quo

Writing for The Huffington Post, author Jonathan Weiler parses criticisms of Obama’s health bill, arguing that the nightmarish scenarios that they imagine under government health care are already...

Jonathan Weiler | 14 Aug 2009