Category Archives: Politics

Everybody is talking about it.  I made up my mind a long time ago.  When I have to make a choice, I prefer not to buy products where the profits go to people who are already very wealthy. It is … Continue reading →

It is a fine review paper (Changes in land tenure and agricultural intensification in sub-Saharan Africa) of some of the recent literature (especially by the authors and co-authors), but I cannot resist pointing out that there is no mention of … Continue reading →

I guess if I were advising a university president, I would advise against treating faculty as short-sighted rabble-rousers… a staff member in my school had the funniest retort… “gee, I wasn’t aware that anything was being planned… maybe we should … Continue reading →

The last chapter for full gender convergence, according to Goldin, is about reorganizing (private sector) flexibility and life-cycle job experience away from 24/7 type “all-in” jobs…. and she notes optimistically this is happening in many sectors.  But one sector where … Continue reading →

 The Faculty Senate Council [of Santa Clara University], by majority vote at its March 12 meeting, approved the following statement in response to the Board of Trustees’ letter of February 14, regarding President Engh’s decision to drop insurance coverage of … Continue reading →

Passover at the University of Texas at Austin this year will feature matzo with a hint of jalapeño. The Haggadahs will be in Hebrew, English and Spanish. The celebration will feature the sounds of a mariachi band, and the taste … Continue reading →

Millions of euros spent on President Zuma’s private home…

Normally, in Word, when hovering your cursor over an EndNote-linked piece of text, the background to the text will go grey. If you try to copy & paste that chunk of text, the grey background will also be copied, no … Continue reading →

Wonderful essay by Walter Dean Myers. Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books? Where are the future white personnel managers going to get their ideas of … Continue reading →

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Not only is defining life futile, but it is also unnecessary to understanding how living things work. All observable matter is, at its most fundamental level, an arrangement of atoms and their constituent particles. These associations range in complexity from … Continue reading →

There has been a steady and large change in the demographics of the Jesuit community (and the Catholic Church more broadly) that may be very important for the question of the “mission and identity” and who has the greater influence … Continue reading →

I ran a variety of economic experiments in Burkina Faso in 2013, and I wanted to show how the distribution of choices changed (or did not) from the first round of the experiments to the second round of the experiments. … Continue reading →

I finally slogged my way through the book, and admit that I must have skimmed the last several hundred pages. It just got to be too much, and the philosophizing at the end, even to the point of a “dear … Continue reading →

Fair wages and educator-led education are two of the major points of contention, said Patricia Schechter, a history professor and union officer. Educator-led education means allowing faculty have more control over university decisions, such as which classes to offer or … Continue reading →

After herding the female students into a classroom, Islamist militants from the group Boko Haram fatally burned or shot dozens of male students in an attack late Monday on a state college in northeastern Nigeria, officials said on Tuesday. It … Continue reading →