I’ve been deficient in serving your delicious, piping-hot links. I apologize. And to make matters worse, I have a very small selection of links today. But you can take solace in knowing that these are hand-crafted, artisanal links–the type of linkage that would make Henry Kissinger envious.
- The worst restaurant in America. Yes, this is a link to an episode of Kitchen Nightmares, but you’ll find it gripping.
- Much like the owners of Amy’s Baking Company in the Kitchen Nightmares episode above, is upset with its rankings. The PRC is trying to get the World Bank to cease ranking countries by business-friendliness.
- In The Chronicle: How do we tell students to drop our courses? And: how do you handle advisees who can’t hack it?
- I’m a huge fan of The Mischiefs of Faction and of Seth Masket generally, but this post about Commodore Pike’s dissertation was unfortunate on a day when we were all thinking about Man, the State, and War.
- The most heartening article I have ever read: Gans and Shepard (1994): “How Are the Mighty Fallen: Rejected Classic Articles by Leading Economists.”
- I really, really like Perspectives on Politics, but I just want to say that I really, really wish that political science had journals like Journal of Economic Perspectives and Journal of Economic Literature. What do I mean? Accessible, high-quality, review and summation articles that communicate effectively to both experts and general audiences (including laymen).
- Via The Monkey Cage, what happens when political scientists stop being nice … and start being political?
And I know I’m about the very last person in the universe to link to this, but “It’s in the syllabus.”
Yeah, sorry. I posted the Pike piece before I had heard about Waltz. For what it’s worth, I took two of his classes when I was an undergrad, and he had greater influence on my thinking than just about anyone else on the Cal faculty.
I hope it’s clear that I thought it was a good post … just unfortunately timed.
It does raise the question: What was prime-Pike’s dissertation about? And if he had had the experience of studying the Kelvin, would he have handled the Talosian situation differently?
“What was prime-Pike’s dissertation about?” Someone knows the answer to this. It must be in one of the books or something. But I doubt it would have saved him. Keep in mind that if it wasn’t for Kirk, Pike’s Enterprise (in the reboot) would have been wiped out immediately by Nero’s ship, even though Pike was likely the most knowledgeable person in the Federation about it. Damned academics don’t know how to apply.
Perhaps there is need for a followup blog post, evaluating what this thread implies for the funding of policy-relevant research by the FSF (the Federation Science Foundation).