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 >> Read More ?
Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler, authors of Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics were interviewed for WUNC’s The State of Things. From WUNC: Is it more important for your...
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. “I always try to leave some space in my practice...
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. “It’s...
Lots of Darwin this year, and Olivia Judson has the round-up, including the new movie. Read More ?
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...
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,...
The only thing I miss now that I’m biking to work: reading on the train. In other words, I’ve lost close to an hour of reading time per day! The New York Times interviewed a slew of people...
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. ~...
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...
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 ?
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...