Ghana votes. Egyptian protesters move from Tahrir to the presidential palace. Rio’s Olympics clean-up uncovers policemen collaborating with drug cartels.- Chronicle of Higher Education visualization of gender and publication records across disciplines and over time. Political science not doing so well.
- For those interested in civilian casualties and war, Chinamanda Adichie has written a moving and very informative review of Chinua Achebe’s controversial new book on Biafra.
- Jim Scott has a farm. Chris Blattman reads Scott’s new book and says that the biggest problem with international development is that it’s not anarchist enough.
- The takedowns of Susan Rice continue apace (this one on her track record in Africa). Also in the Atlantic, a call for dissertations on cellphones and war, which you want to click on for the incredible photo.
- New CGD volume on its solution to the resource curse: turn oil and natural gas revenues into individual cash transfers.
- On Political Violence at a Glance, Ph.D. candidate Sara Bjerg Moller has a guest post on Israel’s agreement to halt targeted killings.
- Finally, Sudhir Venkatesh (of “foot soldiers of the drug war make less than minimum wage” fame) becomes enmeshed in controversy at Columbia. Andrew Gelman’s take here. In Gang Leader for a Day, Venkatesh admits to casual and non-costless betrayals of informant confidentiality. I once saw this as a brave admission of the cluelessness of the beginning fieldworker. Hard not to see that through a very different lens now.
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