The Early Tudors: Henry VIII and the Church of England
23 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of religion, public economics Tags: British history
A Brief History of Fat, and Why We Hate It
23 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, health economics Tags: economics of obesity
Thae Yong-ho: Interview with a North Korean defector – 101 East
22 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, war and peace Tags: North Korea
Emmanouil Bougiakiotis: E.S. v Austria: Blasphemy Laws and the Double Standards of the European Court of Human Rights
22 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
This case concerns the criminal conviction of an Austrian national because of a number of comments she made about Muhammad during some seminars she held under the title “Basic Information on Islam”. In one of those seminars she referred to Muhammad’s marriage with Aisha, one of his wives, implying that the fact that the marriage was conducted when Aisha was six years old and consummated when she was nine, whilst Muhammad was fifty-six and fifty-nine years old respectively, could be considered as paedophilia. An undercover journalist attended the seminar and notified the national authorities, which brought criminal charges against the applicant. The latter was subsequently convicted for “disparaging religious doctrines”.
The Court’s ruling
There are three main themes that Austrian courts used in their reasoning and which the ECtHR endorsed: first, regarding the accuracy of the allegation; second, regarding whether E.S.’s intention was to promote debate on the matter; and…
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In Gaza, children are taught to kill
22 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Hamas
Gender prize gap in world championships in sports
22 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, sports economics
Source: Men get more prize money than women in 30% of sports By Anna Thompson & Aimee Lewis at BBC at https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/29744400
Most sports do not have a gender prize gap because they do not get on the telly much and therefore barely pay enough to cover expenses even for the winners. Whatever gender prize gap that there is for the sports on the telly are dictated by ratings. About a dozen sports that have world championships appear to pay no prizes at all.
Why Don’t Americans Use Bidets?
22 Nov 2018 1 Comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics
Judge drops charges against Detroit doctor for practicing female genital mutilation, rules federal anti-FGM law unconstitutional
22 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
One reason half the states have not legislated is the federal law from 1996, which was always a stretch of federal powers.
This new ruling by a Michigan judge is appalling, though it may hearten some Muslims, even in Western countries, who approve of and even practice female genital mutilation (FGM). As Heather Hastie has written, FGM is practiced widely by Muslims, and has been approved by several sects of Islam. It’s even practiced in the U.K. and U.S. The most notorious case here, and the first prosecution under federal law, was that of Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, who was arrested with several others last year on charges that she practiced or conspired to practice FGM on several girls in a Detroit-area clinic. As CNN reports,
The procedures Nagarwala is accused of performing occurred from 2005 to April 21, 2017, according to the criminal complaint. Prosecutors say that Attar, an internal medicine physician, allowed Nagarwala, an emergency room physician, to perform the banned procedures at his medical clinic in Livonia, Michigan…
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Scott Freeman explains speculative currency attacks
22 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in international economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics Tags: exchange rate economics
New improved standards proposed for adjudicating sexual misconduct in college; ACLU opposes them for “inappropriately favoring the accused”
22 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
In my view, the only good thing that the Trump administration has done is to revise the standards American colleges should use to judge sexual misconduct of students. These changes are, I think, fairer to both accused and accuser than were the previous standards proposed by the Obama administration under its Title IX “Dear colleague” letter, which denied reasonable rights to those accused of misconduct. In view of many court challenges to college punishments resulting from the Obama standards, and their palpable unfairness, the changes proposed by Betsy DeVos seem, on balance, good. (Note: this is NOT an endorsement of Betsy DeVos!) I’ve written previously about the mess that Obama’s Title IX guidelines have created in colleges.
The changes proposed by DeVos, which will become final after a two-month period of comment, were reported a week ago in the New York Times. Here’s how they change the picture.
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