What kinds of civil liberties and how much of them are you willing to sacrifice to protect yourself against terrorism? W. Kip Viscusi of Harvard Law School and Richard Zeckhauser of Harvard’s Kennedy School offer up some survey evidence (pdf file) on the issue. They did not survey actual real people, instead surveying Harvard law students, but it still makes for fascinating reading.
In the New York Times, Adam Cohen spouts the usual lefty tripe about bringing back civil liberties after the Bush administration. Whatever. But the hook ...
The Wilson Quarterly is always worth looking at, and some of its articles are online. In the latest (Winter 2002) issue, Richard Bulliet, The Crisis ...
The Russell Group is an organization of twenty top research universities in Britain (the list is at the link). One of those boring lists of ...
Losing faith The Guardian published an article today by David Newman, a left-wing Israeli academic, and it makes for very depressing reading. Those of us ...
Blogs have been picking up the story of the survey of American and European attitudes towards terrorism. Mixed stuff, with 55% of Europeans saying that ...
The Republican National Committee sends around a fund raising letter with a survey on health that is, shall we say, a tad loaded. It is ...
Professors who are not an embarrassment The Jerusalem Post reports on a group of 70 professors, 12 from Harvard Medical School, who went to Israel ...