EconLog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Inside Higher Ed reports , A small number of colleges have become much more competitive over recent decades, according to Caroline M. Hoxby, an economist at Stanford University. But her study -- published by the National Bureau of Economic Research -- finds that as many as half of colleges have become substantially less competitive over time. Tyler Cowen finds a link to the new paper . I am not sure...
Making Sense with Nicholls (Free subscription) | yesterday
What do the results of the recent elections in America really mean? Here's what Professor Don Boudreaux of George Mason says in a letter to the Washington Post. Dear Editor: Michael Gerson , Charles Krauthammer , and Eugene Robinson speculate today about Tuesday's election results. What do these results signal about the Republican and Democratic parties? About Pres. Obama? About Michael Steele? Sarah...
Wonkette (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Saturday, November 7 through Sunday, November 29: Lost In Yonkers, a play about a very dysfunctional Jewish family, will make you 1) regret your decision to go home for Thanksgiving and 2) crave a delicious corned beef sandwich. [Theater J] Saturday, November 7: An event called the “American Freedom Festival” is happening at George [...] George Mason University - United States - Film festival...
ImmigrationProf Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Prince William County's response to immigration and immigrants have been a frequent subject of postings on Immigrationprof. Now, a press release has announced the release of a study by George Mason University researchers finding that a majority of residents in...
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Well, this is interesting. B&N has over 600 college bookstores and they will be selling the Nook. I wonder how that audience will adapt to it. Thanks to Nathaniel Hoffelder who sent me a link to the George Mason University bookstore site. As you can see it has a pre-order link [...]
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Unlike some Washington Post ombudsmen (ahem, Geneva Overholser), Andrew Alexander deserves credit for raising the question of liberal bias, and reporters’ connections to the liberal movement, even by marriage. But he didn’t tell the whole story. At best, he gets an I for Incomplete. On Sunday , Alexander reported: Post reporter Juliet Eilperin covers the contentious issue of climate change....
theonlinecitizen (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Bryan Caplan The Online Citizen thanks Professor Bryan Caplan of George Mason University and the Civil Service College for permission to reproduce this essay. This essay was quoted by Law Minister K.Shanmugam at a recent dialogue with the New York State Bar Association. Introduction: Singapore versus the Median Voter Model (Left: Ready to meet the demands of [...] Related Posts Political suicide or...
Legal History Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Over at the Voloch Conspiracy, David Bernstein, George Mason University School of Law, deplores a phenomenon I've also found deplorable, the obligation entry-level or junior legal historians sometimes feel to impail their research on the "hook" of "some sort of strained analogy to a modern constitutional controversy" in order to catch the interest of a hiring committee or (I'll...
Legal Theory Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Nelson Lund (George Mason University School of Law) has posted Judicial Review and Judicial Duty: The Original Understanding (Constitutional Commentary, Forthcoming) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: What we call “judicial review” was not established in Marbury v. Madison, or...
Mid Atlantic Art News (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
SOFAlab is tomorrow How and where do art and science - two seemingly disparate disciplines of intellectual inquiry - overlap? And, at that confluence, what can practitioners of both disciplines learn to expand their unique fields of knowledge and to affect consciousness? SOFAlab on Nov. 5, 2009. SOFAlab 's keynote speaker, Tod Machover - Professor of Music and Media at the Massachusetts Institute of...
The Volokh Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Congratulations to VA’s new AG, Ken Cuccinelli who, to the best of my knowledge, becomes the first George Mason law school alumnus to be elected to state-wide office in Viriginia. He bested alumni of William & Mary and UVA in the primaries. GMU is a relatively young law school and this is a proud day [...]
Avian Flu Diary (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
# 3946 The HHS has put together a series of What To Do About Flu webcasts, and will broadcast another one Wednesday at 1pm EST at http://www.flu.gov/live/ . November 4 th 1 PM EST Know What to Do About the Flu Webcast – Vaccinations Experts will discuss what to expect at H1N1 vaccine clinics and provide insights into vaccine availability. Everyday Americans will offer personal stories on why...
Baltimore Reporter (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Maurice P. McTigue Maurice P. McTigue is a distinguished visiting scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he directs the government accountability project. Previously, he was a member of the New Zealand Parliament and New Zealand’s ambassador to Canada, and was closely involved in New Zealand’s deregulation of labor markets, deregulation of the [...]
Alter The Press! (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Motion City Soundtrack will release 'My Dinosaur Life' on January 19th, 2010 on Columbia Records. The album was produced by Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus and mixed by the legendary Andy Wallace (Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Kaiser Chiefs). My Dinosaur Life Track Listing: 1. Worker Bee 2. A Lifeless Ordinary (Need A Little Help) 3. Her Words Destroyed My Planet 4. Disappear 5. Delirium 6. History Lesson 7....
Carbon-Based (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The Times of India : The climate change is fast becoming a major global concern and urgent steps are needed to tackle it, says Prof Jagdish Shukla, president, Institute of Global Environment and Society, George Mason University, US. "The global warming in mainly responsible for climate change and its repercussions are reflected in the form of extinction of nearly 20 per cent of world's flora and...
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