Friday, September 9, 2016

Ardent investigators or lackeys?

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Iowahawk is on a roll. L: How the media see themselves R: How everybody else sees them pic.twitter.com/c7SRdrUdeG — David Burge (@iowahawk...

There's freedom of speech. Then there's freedom from speech

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Heh. Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving. — David Burge (@iowahawkblog) September 26, 20...
Thursday, September 8, 2016

But the graphs do show an echo chamber

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From Relatively Few People Are Partisan News Consumers, but They’re Influential by Brendan Nyhan. New research shows that the great majorit...
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Anonymity by not using a family name? Not anymore.

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Found via Tyler Cowen . He's quoting from an original newspaper account that reads: In the northwest corner of Phnom Penh’s Boeng Keng...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

What this country really needs is a good five-cent nickel

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I start with a review of a collection of books about Dorothy Parker, Brilliant, Troubled Dorothy Parker by Robert Gottlieb. Gottlieb descri...
Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Indeed, What regiment?

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From A Literary Education by Joseph Epstein. Page 10. When a student in the Lionel Trilling story "Of This Time, Of That Place" ...
Monday, September 5, 2016

Peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice

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From A Troublesome Inheritance by Nicholas Wade. Page 234. In the lapidary words of Adam Smith, "Little else is requisite to carry a...
Sunday, September 4, 2016

I stand between you and the apocalypse

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I know the Grey Lady is in her dotage but I find it inexplicable that, as deeply supportive of Hillary Clinton as they are, that they let th...

The seed of books planted in dry ground

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From A Troublesome Inheritance by Nicholas Wade. Page 228. Islamic rulers long kept challenges away by forbidding the printing press and ...
Saturday, September 3, 2016

There are few controlled experiments in history

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From A Troublesome Inheritance by Nicholas Wade. Page 215. I wouldn't invest too much significance into this but it is none-the-less...