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Max Novendstern

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Harvard Thinks Big

Harvard Thinks Big was billed as an "important" event. Its Facebook page was ebullient. Expectations were high. "A dream team of 10 Harvard professors will each...

Weighing in: The Asian Ceiling

Check out Jon Yip's post, "The Asian Ceiling" for a review of a Kara Miller's Boston Globe editorial about Asian discrimination in the college...

One Summit At A Time

Will Leiter gives us an overview of Obama's "bipartisan summit" strategy and asks, in effect, will it work? Some smart people whom I respect...

Postcards from Nixonland

For Obama's first-year anniversary the New York Times rounded up some White House veterans to write about their respective presidents' first years. This one,...

The Sociology of Mankiw

The notion that economics can explain everything about everything (re: Freakonomics) is something that I've always regarded as silly and kinda gross. The basic...

Money, Politics, and Citizens United

I spent this past week complaining about government dysfunction -- so I'd be remiss not to mention the Citizens United ruling. Of the many...

Scott Brown Endorses Health Care Reform

Coakley's loss was a lot of things -- but a repudiation of Obama's health care reform it was not. Massachusetts is an odd state...

Martha Coakley and the Politics of Despair

Here’s the deal: if Martha Coakley loses tonight then it’s good news for Lloyd Blankfein, who’s worried about financial regulation reform, for the super...

The Pathos of Helplessness

James Fallows makes a lot of good points in his long Atlantic article, "How American Can Rise Again." I'll highlight just one. Let's call...

When will white people stop writing articles like this?

If you’ve seen Avatar and haven't yet read Annalee Newitz’s article “When will white people stop making movies like this?” then you're missing out....