Ezra Klein passes along a great piece from the Boston Review on how the debate between liberals and conservatives (or, at least, Democrats and Republicans) on the issue of the “free-market” and regulatory policy is completely distorted in modern discourse. The thesis of the article:
In general, political debates over regulation have been wrongly cast as [...]
Archive for December, 2008
The Worthlessness of talking about Free Markets
Posted in Economics, Policy, tagged Financial Crisis, Free Market, Libertarianism, Regulation on December 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
More on Herman Rosenblat
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Angel at the Fence, Art, Essentialism, Herman Rosenblat on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
TNR has a good tick-tock of the events leading to the cancellation of Angel at the Fence. Considering this all happened over Christmas, it’s pretty interesting how quickly things turned on Rosenblat.
It looks as if the movie based on the book will continue production. It makes sense to me that the movie could be turned [...]
Fraudulent Memoirs and Psychological Essentialism
Posted in Essentialism, Philosophy, tagged Angel at the Fence, Essentialism, Herman Rosenblaut, James Frey, Paul Bloom, Philosophy on December 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The big news out of the publishing industry is Herman Rosenblat’s Holocaust love story/memoir has been snuffed by his publish prior to release after The New Republic printed an article speculating that it was largely fictitious. Rosenblat admitted the deception and, as expected, public outcry was forceful and the publisher’s decision to kill the book [...]
How not to write about the brain
Posted in Mindless Science, Policy, fMRI, tagged Amygdala, Dopamine, fMRI, New York Times, Smoking on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of my general intentions for this blog is to write about the intersection of cognitive neuroscience research and public policy, so it makes sense to begin by highlighting an extraordinarily poor example of how to do that. On December 11th, The New York Times printed an op-ed article by Martin Linstrom describing his neuroimaging [...]
More on Martin Lindstrom
Posted in Mindless Science, fMRI, tagged fMRI Hype, Martin Lindstrom, Neuromarketing, New York Times, NPR on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
EDIT: I’m still trying to figure out how WordPress works, but this post should appear after the one directly above, “How not to write about the brain.” It will make more sense that way.
I hadn’t seen this before, but the Stanford Law School Center for Law and Biosciences Blog had previously written about an NPR [...]
