Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
My latest installment in my continuing series on teaching was inspired by Jane Galt’s post about picking a major.  I think she’s neglecting to mention the other ingredient to college, arguably more important than your major(s)/minor(s):  Extracurricular activities and internships.
Even in majors that don’t have a reputation for being “practical”, i.e. they don’t have [...]

Gary Farber is onto important news about the actual effects of America’s “pro-democracy” program for Iran. It’s getting lots of people arrested, and various Iranian reform leaders abroad warned the State Department and others against stamping “Made in the USA” all over Iranian dissident groups within the Islamic Republic.
I class the following with the perfectly [...]

By Thoreau
On Thursday I had the rare opportunity to observe a grant review committee (called a “study section” in agency jargon) for a federal science funding agency. There were other observers there in an official capacity, to record the decisions made and whatnot, but I was present for a rather different purpose: I was [...]

by BruceB
This is the first of what’ll be an occasional series of not quite book reports. It’s sort of the flip side of the 24 blogging, in a way, looking at how creators of various sorts of fiction are using the raw material of recent years’ developments in the national security state.
First up, Michael [...]