This post over at TPMCafe about the folly of supposing that a “most blogged about” article is apt to be particularly important (or well written or, well, accurate) got me thinking about an embryonic idea I’d tossed out here some time back in the context of academia. There’s a monetary phenomenon in economics described by […]

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Documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney does: His one-hour movie The Human Behavior Experiments, which has been airing on Sundance, surveys three of the 20th century’s best known… uh… Human Behavior Experiments: The famous Milgram experiments on obedience to authority, the Stanford Prison Experiment, and Darley and Latane’s studies at Columbia on bystander apathy in response to […]

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At the reception after the forum I mention in the post below, I ended up chatting with Jon Rauch, and mentioned that I was working on a proposal for a book. (I’ll tell y’all about it at some point when I’m a little further along in the process.) He said something to the effect that […]

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In the course of making various perfectly good points in a tussle over the relative merits of Old Media and the blogosphere with an anonymous commenter, Jeff Jarvis drops this bizarre argument: First, it’s a shame that whoever this is hides behind the nom d’interactivity of “journalist” without the conviction to stand behind these words […]

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Instapundit links Marc Cooper’s lament that “just when media is more important than ever in the political fight, just when cheap digital technology makes radio production immediately doable and accessible, Pacifica has marooned itself on the margin.” Glenn then adds that “the problem extends beyond Pacifica” and links to a story that’s supposed to illustrate […]

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I almost did a spit-take when I got to this part of the latest dispatch from the Hewittverse (emphasis mine): The right’s embrace in the Miers nomination of tactics previously exclusive to the left – exaggeration, invective, anonymous sources, an unbroken stream of new charges, television advertisements paid for by secret sources – will make […]

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…is on The Daily Show, and it strikes me that he sounds kind of like Wallace Shawn without the lisp.

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Fellow parliamentary debate alum Emily Messner (née Bernstein, for those who Knew Her When) is blogging up a storm at The Washington Post.

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From NPR just now: People are pointing to race and class as two of the main reasons most of the people now suffering in New Orleans are black and poor. They might just be on to something. And I think national origin may explain why so many of them are American.

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So, a couple weeks back I did a panel for a seminar run by the Institute for Humane Studies, and ended up chatting afterward with a couple of the students and Dan Drezner. I mentioned in passing that I’d done a previous panel a year back on the application of social network theory—about which I’d […]

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