From The persistence of racial discrimination in hiring Lincoln Quillian, Devah Pager, Ole Hexel, Arnfinn H. Midtbøen Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Oct 2017, 114 (41) 10870-10875; DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1706255114
Do you believe top sociologists or your own lying eyes? Field experiments missed a social revolution
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in discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, labour economics, politics - USA Tags: racial discrimination
“Yessir, Drill Sergeant, Sir!”
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A little bit of fun for a Friday afternoon.
One of my favourite movies is Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, from 1987.
Critics have made the reasonably accurate point that while there are some great scenes from the movie the overall plot drags a little. One critic at the time noted (WARNING: plot spoiler ahead) that the James Bond movie of the same year, The Living Daylights, got straight to the same point – dealing with a female sniper – right at the start rather than trying to make such a big moral deal of it.
But the latter spoke to the sensibilities of the generation of Kubrick and the Baby Boomers rather than the more jaded and cynical views of later generations, for whom the idea of female snipers as both protagonists and victims was “meh”!
In any case, the opening scene of Jacket is stunningly memorable…
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California’s wildfires aren’t ‘unprecedented or unusual’
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Environmental policy expert Michael Shellenberger was interviewed by Sky News host Chris Kenny and said, despite claims California’s fires are unprecedented, in fact top forest scientists in the Golden State state are all stressing the blazes are not unusual. Shellenberger was interviewed by Tucker Carlson on his Fox News show tonight for similar reasons.
9/11 refuge revisited: Gander Airport
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“The US Airspace is closed” | 9/11: Cleared for Chaos
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How pilots found out about the World Trade Center attacks | 9/11: Cleared for Chaos
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Killing Bin Laden: The President’s Story, Part 2
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George W. Bush’s bullhorn speech still echoes
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Discrimination at Harvard? | Glenn Loury & Peter Arcidiacono [The Glenn Show]
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination
Informing the President on 9/11
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King Richard I of England: Assessment Part I
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From the Emperor’s Desk: Today and Tomorrow I will assesses the reign of Richard the Lionheart.
Character and sexuality
Contemporaries considered Richard as both a king and a knight famed for personal martial prowess; this was, apparently, the first such instance of this combination. He was known as a valiant, competent military leader and individual fighter who was courageous and generous. At the same time, he was considered prone to the sins of lust, pride, greed, and above all excessive cruelty. Ralph of Coggeshall, summarising Richard’s career, deplores that the King was one of “the immense cohort of sinners”. He was criticised by clergy chroniclers for having taxed the clergy both for the Crusade and for his ransom, whereas the church and the clergy were usually exempt from taxes.
Richard was a patron and a protector of the trouvères and troubadours of his entourage; he was also a poet himself…
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