Inside the Ivory Tower Daniel Maliniak, Amy Oakes, Susan Peterson, Michael J. Tierney; Foreign Policy; March/April 2009, p. 84 This interesting article summarizes some of the data from the Ivory Tower Index. If the Obama administration took as its blueprint the poll of views of international relations scholars on issues ranging from the economy to […]
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A Moving Inaugural
After eight years of George W. Bush I’d be thrilled for Kermit the Frog to be sworn in as President of the United States. While I was excited for Barack Obama to become the President, I was more excited for the departure of W. That changed yesterday. Obama isn’t just not-Bush; he’s the real deal […]
Krugman for Treasury
I think Paul Krugman should be Obama’s Treasury Secretary. Perhaps that’s a bit over-the-top, because there are so many qualified candidates. I do like Paul’s ideas. Plus, he has a Nobel Prize in Economics (2008). We need universal (single-payer) health care in the worst way. We very much need New Deal-type stimuli. Some of that […]