Paul (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} happyfunpaul) wrote,@ 2009-04-24 09:00:00 |
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[links] various political and economic
I'm keeping track of these mostly for my own benefit, but feel free to watch/read/listen:
A half-hour speech by Andrew Napolitano covering the history of abuses against the Fourth Amendment, given October 2007. (The video is at the bottom and I can't figure out how to link to it separately. The rest of the page is a Nick Gillespie overwrought screed.)
Supreme Court limits warrantless vehicle searches (an actual small bit of good news)
Court Debates Strip Search of Student, in which the Supremes supposedly attempt to balance privacy vs. safety of the students. Sounds semi-reasonable until you get the details:
The (school) officials were acting on a tip from another student and were looking for prescription-strength ibuprofen, a painkiller. They made Ms. Redding strip to her underwear, shake her bra and pull aside her panties. The officials, both female, found no pills.
What has it come to, that anyone takes those school officials' case seriously?
How the Crash Will Reshape America by Richard Florida, from The Atlantic. It's a nice piece that combines speculation about the long-term effects of the economic crash with an analysis of government's role in causing it (in particular, the long-time fetishization of homeownership). The article ends oddly, though-- having just explained all the ways in which government messed up by warping the economy, the author then proceeds to suggest new and different ways for the government to mess up by warping the economy.
Richard Posner on the New Depression
More of a science link, but with political overtones: NY Times book review of "Intelligence and How to Get It" by Richard E. Nisbett (a prominent cognitive and social psychologist, and one of my mentors back at U. Michigan), which is essentially a well-researched reply to Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's “The Bell Curve” (1994) and Arthur R. Jensen's “The g Factor” (1998). In a sense, I got a preview of the book back in 1994 just talking to Dick after we listened to Charles Murray give a talk at U. Toledo, so I'll definitely be getting this one.
5 psychological experiments that prove humanity is doomed, a snarky review of some major social psych studies.
I'm keeping track of these mostly for my own benefit, but feel free to watch/read/listen:
A half-hour speech by Andrew Napolitano covering the history of abuses against the Fourth Amendment, given October 2007. (The video is at the bottom and I can't figure out how to link to it separately. The rest of the page is a Nick Gillespie overwrought screed.)
Supreme Court limits warrantless vehicle searches (an actual small bit of good news)
Court Debates Strip Search of Student, in which the Supremes supposedly attempt to balance privacy vs. safety of the students. Sounds semi-reasonable until you get the details:
The (school) officials were acting on a tip from another student and were looking for prescription-strength ibuprofen, a painkiller. They made Ms. Redding strip to her underwear, shake her bra and pull aside her panties. The officials, both female, found no pills.
What has it come to, that anyone takes those school officials' case seriously?
How the Crash Will Reshape America by Richard Florida, from The Atlantic. It's a nice piece that combines speculation about the long-term effects of the economic crash with an analysis of government's role in causing it (in particular, the long-time fetishization of homeownership). The article ends oddly, though-- having just explained all the ways in which government messed up by warping the economy, the author then proceeds to suggest new and different ways for the government to mess up by warping the economy.
Richard Posner on the New Depression
More of a science link, but with political overtones: NY Times book review of "Intelligence and How to Get It" by Richard E. Nisbett (a prominent cognitive and social psychologist, and one of my mentors back at U. Michigan), which is essentially a well-researched reply to Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray's “The Bell Curve” (1994) and Arthur R. Jensen's “The g Factor” (1998). In a sense, I got a preview of the book back in 1994 just talking to Dick after we listened to Charles Murray give a talk at U. Toledo, so I'll definitely be getting this one.
5 psychological experiments that prove humanity is doomed, a snarky review of some major social psych studies.
