links for 2007-10-15
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while conservatives, Republicans, and Republican voters are rare within the faculty ranks, on many issues there are as many professors who hold center/center-left views as there are those who cleave to more liberal positions
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I don’t think any institution anywhere has a too-few-Republicans problem: universities don’t need more believers in intelligent design or the appicability of the Laffer curve or the unitary executive or the genetic inferiority of Africans or more disbelie
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Question to think about: If right-wingers are underrepresented in universities relative to the population and discriminated against by the left-wing majority, as Larry suggests, should there be affirmative action for right-leaning academics?
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Fuel and mining magnate backed UK challenge to An Inconvenient Truth
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As the United States prepares for the next great debate on its ailing health-care system, support is growing for a shift from the traditional employer-based financing to publicly subsidized individual health insurance.
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…many people think of capitalism and think of centralized power (big corporations). Yet, the whole point of capitalism is to allow each individual to choose what to buy, where to work, how much to pay, how to spend their time so and so forth.
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October 16th, 2007 at 09:29
Hi Jacob,
I’m writing on a civics project about political psychology and would be greatful for responce on a couple of questions from a politics blogger’s point of view also (in addition to my interviews with an expert on political science) conserning the topic.
So;Why do you think motivates people to join terrorist groups? Could it have some assosiations with political psychology?/Does it aggree wtih the opinions of people like Sigmund Freud, Alfred Adler or B.F. Skinner?? Why?
Thanks for borrowing your time,
josefina
Internationella Kunskapsgymnasiet, Stockholm
October 16th, 2007 at 18:19
Interesting, but difficult question. I’ll see if I can get back to this in a post.