Hello everyone ( Read more... )

This certainly doesn't belong here but I created this old (very quite) community and therefore can do what I want ( Read more... )

I know this is a basic question but its been floating around in my head since my grad school friends and I discussed this very question during a short break in my urban politics seminar this summer.

Background for asking this question:

When I opened this community a couple of years ago, I lived in Greeley, Colorado.  Greeley is a pretty wealthy small ( Read more... )

Some people have made arguments that if there were better gun control the mass murder at Virginia Tech wouldn't have happened. I've also heard that if people were allowed to carry weapons they would have been able to defend themselves against the killer. I disagree with both arguments. The issue of guns is a red herring. There's no evidence that ( Read more... )

I'd like to find a decent book that serves as a comparative study of the contemporary environment of radical political theory. Something that contrasts the positions of figures like Zizek, Agamben, Hardt, Negri, Mouffe, Laclau, etc. The book I'm reading right now, Zizek's Politics gives a paltry introduction to the situation. Right now I don't ( Read more... )

It is completely it would be correct to name the fate of social sciences for the latter of one-and-a-half century deeply tragic. In a sense, it is similar to the fate “of the lions of Islam”, of the struck terror into tens countries of Europe, Asia and Africa in XV -XVIII centuries, the furious and cruel soldiers of Ottoman Empire - Janizary.

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A moment of silence for the death of Milton Friedman...

He died today.

(As for the wonderful article that has been posted: I will read it more closly after classes get out. This is my first semester of grad school and i'm a little overwhelmed. Please do not be discouraged about my lack of attention! From what I have read, it sounds awsome.

This is in response to an article I just ready by the above individual called, "Contain the Wealthy and Patrol the Magistrates.  Restoring Elite Accountability to Popular Government ( Read more... )

Today's New York Times had an article on the front page about how many colleges are enabling students who have not even finished high school or received an equivelent degree to attend their institutions. The students receive financial aid, including state and federal tax money, in many cases ( Read more... )

The airline industry in the United States has, for more than a decade, been in the red. Our government has, for about that long, been willing to pull them out of that debt that they face. The argument is that the industry is necessary to maintain the economy. And, that I can believe. But in a state where capitalism is supreme, it is difficult ( Read more... )