By • Jun 29,2008

Statistics Abuse

I have a lot of problems with statistical analysis. Most of my complaints go straight to the heart of the use of large-n studies of groups — irritating quant people,...

By • Jun 29,2008

And When They Meet, It's Happy Land

So I’ve just returned from Providence, RI, where an IHS conference on social change was held at Brown University. Stars of the show included the ever-lucid Will Wilkinson (recently in...

By • Jun 29,2008

Friedman's Funk

It used to be said that if The Cure made a happy album something had truly gone wrong in the world. It must now be said that if Tom Friedman...

By • Jun 29,2008

Could It Be…Satan?

Who’s worse than Mugabe? And why don’t we hear about him? Perfectly good question fielded a few days ago by Peter Maass at Slate. I haven’t kept up with the...

By • Jun 27,2008

Almost certainly a terrible idea

Though not a surprising one. /Film reports that a sequel (or possibly a prequel) is in the works for 300. Now, I loved 300–it’s one of the few martial films...