Bernie Sanders may or may not win the Democratic presidential
nomination, but he has already done something stunning: put socialism
into the mainstream political debate in the...
http://peoplesworld.org/everyone-s-talking-about-socialism-but-what-is-it/
Inkwell welcomes Joseph Reagle, Assistant Professor of Communication
Studies at Northeastern. He*s been a resident fellow at the Berkman
Center for Internet and Society at Har...
http://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/483/Joseph-M-Reagle-Jr-Reading-the-C-page01.html
Happy New Year to GrantWatch readers! Here is some light reading for
the holiday weekend.
Grantmakers In Health (GIH) has announced that six new members have
been elected to...
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2015/12/29/people-post-staff-and-board-changes-in-health-philanthropy-honors-request-for-proposals/
Many economists will tell you that the most important principle in
economics is comparative advantage — the idea that it is expensive
to grow oranges in Alaska or to flood r...
http://fee.org/freeman/comparative-advantage-an-idea-whose-time-has-passed/
HERE is a piece of news that may have escaped you in the Christmas
rush.
First, recall that the German city of Aachen likes to think itself as
the starting point of modern Eu...
http://www.economist.com/blogs/erasmus/2015/12/europe-charlemagne-and-pope?fsrc=rss
It has been an unsettling year. Globally, the news has been dominated
by terrorism, the humanitarian disaster in Syria, and a flood of
refugees into Europe, where far-right an...
https://www.minnpost.com/foreign-concept/2015/12/seven-good-things-happened-around-world-2015
Richard Albert
There are crises and then there are crises.
In his lead essay for this symposium and elsewhere in his influential
work, Sandy Levinson has built the case th...
http://www.cato-unbound.org/2015/12/22/richard-albert/enviable-crisis