Category Archives: Navel Gazing
Leadership and Collective Action Problems, or Goofy Games with Surprising Implications
I’m not generally all that big on “leadership training.” Back in early 2007, I spent a lot of time prowling around through the business section of the local Barnes & Noble, doing some research for a potential gig ghostwriting a book on leadership. The project never really came together (thank you, FactCheck.org). But the experience did teach me one lesson. … Continue reading
Newspapers and Universities
Are universities headed down the same path as newspapers? That’s the prediction Matt Yglesias offered a couple of days ago on his blog. Here’s Matt: I was reading John Gravois on “The College For-Profits Should Fear” in the Washington Monthly and Paul Campos’ continuing jeremiads about legal education (and this) and I more and more have the feeling that American … Continue reading
Another One Bites the Dust
So now Melissa McEwan has followed Amanda Marcotte into the ranks of Former Employees of John Edwards. If you’ve been living in a bubble (or perhaps more accurately, if you’ve been living outside of the bubble that is the blogosphere), you may not have heard that McEwan and Marcotte have been known to say some, well, some unkind things about … Continue reading
Ah, Moderation
What should one say, really, about the mild uproar over John Edwards’ hiring of Amanda Marcotte and Melissa McEwan? For those out there who don’t know (all three of you), Marcotte blogs at Pandagon while McEwan blogs at Shakespeare’s Sister. It seems that these two very well-known, funny, insightful and extremely intelligent women bloggers have been known to (gasp!) say … Continue reading
Guest Blogging
For the next couple of weeks, I’m going to be filling in over at Catallarchy while the regulars there are off enjoying their yearly anarcho-capitalist drunken get-together. Sorry. Scratch that. They’ll be out on the West Coast plotting how to get individuals to realize that it’s in their best interest to bloodlessly rid the world of the unnecessary and immoral … Continue reading
Interesting New Blog
As you all know, I work in political theory, which of course means that while I talk lots about war and morality I don’t, in general, do things like, well, get my hands dirty with actual empirical day-to-day issues in war. Fortunately, there are those who are willing to get their hands dirty, doing the sorts of empirical work necessary … Continue reading