January 2009
9 posts
Nicene Creed versus Nicene Creedence
A new article by Elizabeth Suhay finds that belief-group opinions (specifically in the Catholic church) help to construct member behavior by assigning a measure of validity to them, which these members act on by changing their behavior. Though they don’t exactly count as a religion, I’d like to test this on Pavement fans—given Aquarium Drunkard’s typology:
Grouping ...
“I don’t like Hitler [sic] abuse of human beings but I can’t help admiring the...”
– Unsigned hate letter (7 March 1945) to Harold G. Moulton, President of the Brookings Institution
Full version of the 2008 Think Tank Index →
Context included.
Yale Chicken Conference →
I’m so sorry I missed this.
In Foreign Policy magazine today... →
The Global Think Tank Index, created by James McGann (which I helped out on over the summer) is in the newly designed Foreign Policy this month. I know those “top 10 lists” are ubiquitous by…
Lee Siegel on Huntington →
Great piece by Lee Siegel in today’s Times reflecting on the grand theories of Samuel Huntington, who died last week.
“Mr. Huntington’s idea about the inevitable clash of civilizations also looks...”
– Lee Siegel in today’s New York Times, see link below
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"They're all corrupt" →
Eric Uslaner’s got a new article out in Public Opinion Quarterly on the relationship between ethnic groups and trust. I clearly don’t have the statistics chops to give a fair appraisal of this,…