Daily Archive: January 31, 2012

/// January 31, 2012

Seriously, Did We Really Learn Nothing From Joe Paterno & the Penn State Debacle?

It’s probably not fair to pick on the National Review’s Michael Novak, because I’ve been seeing a lot of this kind of thing this past week: They said it was not a Penn State problem,...

Patrick

/// January 31, 2012

The Problem with IT, Part I

There have been a number of comments on a recent post that have glanced sidelong at a problem domain with which I’m reasonably familiar… and since we have a number of digital gearheads who...

Ryan Noonan

/// January 31, 2012

The Politics of ‘Homeland’ are Incredibly Squicky

(Spoilers for the first three episodes of ‘Homeland’ follow. Be warned.) I’ve been working on catching up with the Showtime series “Homeland” for the last couple days on the recommendation of basically everyone on...

Mike Dwyer

/// January 31, 2012

Rural Mobility and Education Policy

From The Rural Blog: Studies regarding student mobility — how often students switch schools — has usually been focused on poor urban areas, but new research suggests rural student mobility may be as big...

Ethan Gach

/// January 31, 2012

In Which I Discuss Jonathan Franzen’s Remarks at Length

Speaking recently at the Hay Festival in Cartagena, Colombia, American novelist, Jonathan Franzen, attacked what he identifies as the impermanence of ebooks. His following remarks are what Andrew Sullivan recently dismissed as “Wieseltierian piffle,”

Jason Kuznicki

/// January 31, 2012

A Grim Alternative

For most privileged, professional people, the experience of confinement is a mere brush, encountered after a kid’s arrest, say. For a great many poor people in America, particularly poor black men, prison is a...

J.L. Wall

/// January 31, 2012

The Third Tribe

Maybe this would be otherwise if I’d followed the discussions around here of Charles Murray’s Coming Apart thesis a little more closely, but I was struck by the math in David Brooks’ column* today:

Jaybird

/// January 31, 2012

Announcing The Mindless Diversions Book Club!

We won’t make you read, though. We’re going to watch the first season of Fringe and talk and argue about it. We’ll hammer out how many episodes we want to watch between posts (which...