Let’s start with some more Erik Loomis blogging. Doktor Zoom at Wonkette provides a snarky take on head-on-a-stick gate, while Crooked Timber provides a forum for an interesting debate over the various issues at stake. Both point to an underlying dynamic at work: that this is fairly boilerplate “Professor Punching” as carried out by elements of the Right. Collecting academic heads has been a preferred sport for those elements at least since William F. Buckley redefined “the elite” from “rich people who wield outsized political power” to “people who routinely read things published by university presses.”
If you haven’t checked out my podcast with Robert Farley, do give it a try. And remember that all of our podcasts are available from an archive. The next one will feature Iver B. Neumann, who also has a just-released interview with Theory Talks. I also want to make another plug for The Hydrogen Sonata forum that is ongoing at the Duck.
Via 3QD, an article by Arthur L. Kellermann and Frederick P. Riavara called “Silencing the Science on Gun Control.” For me this is the single most damning thing about the NRA and its allies; we can’t have a solid policy discussion on the merits and demerits of gun control without high-quality information about the costs and benefits of current policy. The fact that the NRA doesn’t even want that information available says nothing about the general population of opponents of gun control, but it speaks volumes about their self-declared political leadership.
Bullet-point links:
- Also via 3QD, Cathy O’Neil doesn’t care much for Nate Silver’s The Signal and the Noise. Jordan Ellenberg replies.
- Mark Leon Goldberg on presumptive Secretary of State Kerry’s big challenges (via The Progressive Realist). A related BLTN link: Joe Young’s “Foreign Policy in the Next Obama Administration.”
- P O’Neil notes that the House Republican’s fiscal-cliff legislation eviscerates the ability of the FDIC to handle non-bank insolvencies, i.e., constitutes a “reversion to the to the 2008 situation.”
- Mark Safranski very much likes Joshua Foust’s critique of fears of autonomous weapons.
- A guest post at Abu Muqawama by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross examines “The Shape of Al Shabaab’s Post-Kismayo Attacks.”
- The end of the Rwandan War Crimes Tribunal.
- A. Grier Meisels wants China to adopt a more “responsible” trade policy along with a greater share of the global-order burden.
- Michael Flynn flogs his new multi-authored International Studies Quarterly article.
- Pablo K. got his doctorate ten days ago and we forgot to say “congratulations!” Sorry.
- BLTN: Daniel Little calls for new metaphors for “The Social.”
Daniel H. Nexon is a Professor at Georgetown University, with a joint appointment in the Department of Government and the School of Foreign Service. His academic work focuses on international-relations theory, power politics, empires and hegemony, and international order. He has also written on the relationship between popular culture and world politics.
He has held fellowships at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation and at the Ohio State University's Mershon Center for International Studies. During 2009-2010 he worked in the U.S. Department of Defense as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow. He was the lead editor of International Studies Quarterly from 2014-2018.
He is the author of The Struggle for Power in Early Modern Europe: Religious Conflict, Dynastic Empires, and International Change (Princeton University Press, 2009), which won the International Security Studies Section (ISSS) Best Book Award for 2010, and co-author of Exit from Hegemony: The Unraveling of the American Global Order (Oxford University Press, 2020). His articles have appeared in a lot of places. He is the founder of the The Duck of Minerva, and also blogs at Lawyers, Guns and Money.
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