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  • Moving to my own site (Take Two)

    I’m back over at stevendouglasmaloney.com. I think I’m up for hosting myself this time… wish me luck! [...]
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    Posted: June 10, 2009, 3:01pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Obviously Technology Can’t Help You Make Good Arguments…

    My university’s center for E-Learning (I wonder how much more the school puts into that center compared to academic subjects) sent me a link to this article on “Legacy Demands and Technology Expectations.”  Here are some of the winning bits of commentary. On campus, we educators behave as if computers have [...]
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    Posted: June 03, 2009, 12:37am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Beethoven’s 9th Lectures

    Harvard has this great page with all sorts of fascinating videos and lectures and stuff.  I had started watching the lectures on Beethoven’s 9th in the summer of 2007, but never finished.  We’ll put this one back on my to-do list. [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2009, 8:19pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Brian Leiter lecture on Dworkin and Legal Realism

    Link.  (anyone know how to use flowplayer on a wordpress.com blog??) [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2009, 4:08pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Is Anti-Philosophy still Philosophy?

    One of the nice discoveries of being in a Derek Parfit reading group – aside from encountering Parfit – is that I am going to stumble upon some other interesting and thoughtful blogs as others host the chapters.  As such, I have very belatedly run into an Arendt question that apparently has [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2009, 12:26pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • On the Sotomayor Quote…

    Here again, is the Sotomayor quote that has some rankled: I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life Here’s the context of where and why she said it, [...]
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    Posted: May 29, 2009, 11:29am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • The Limits of Anti-Realism

    It’s funny.  I watched the HBO movie Recount last night, where both sides of the Bush-Gore election are portrayed in a fairly positive manner, but the Supreme Court is not.  It was an interesting thing to watch in the context of the nomination of Justice Sonia Sotamayor to the United [...]
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    Posted: May 29, 2009, 11:07am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Student Writing Education – Is it influence by the typewriter?

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    In talking to students about papers this semester, I’m wondering about their writing priorities.  They are so obsessed with PLANNING their papers before ever committing a word to the page.  They are in fact, unanimously convinced that the best way to write a paper is to write it once and [...]
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    Posted: May 28, 2009, 9:51am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Philosophy and Legal Theory

    Brian Leiter posted a poll for the best political and legal theory journals… I find this interesting both for future reference if I ever publish again with Sybil, and also because the poll ranks Condorcet Winners. [...]
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    Posted: May 27, 2009, 11:46am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Obvious Joke Check

    Have people made good use of the similarity in ridiculous formulation between Cap ‘n Trade and Cap’n Crunch?  Yes?  Oh good.   [...]
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    Posted: May 21, 2009, 3:40pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Leila Josefowicz tonight!

    This time at the Minnesota Orchestra!! Program notes here. [...]
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    Posted: April 25, 2009, 6:52pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Soccer Posts now at OleOle.com

    All, Since my soccer posts have started to outpace my other posts here, I decided to separate them out. I have a site at oleole.com called Soccernomics. Bad title, or worst title ever? It’s definitely the former, because it, sadly, was the best thing I could come up with. Everything [...]
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    Posted: April 23, 2009, 3:20pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • If you are among the very Jung at heart…

    I’m thinking of trying to put together an undergraduate political psychology course as a proposed junior level seminar for ‘10-11.  It occurred to me that I have never read anything by Jung.  So, while out at the bookstore the other day I picked up Portable Jung.  I have read Joseph [...]
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    Posted: April 19, 2009, 8:56pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Palmer House Blues

    I am writing this from the lobby of the Palmer House. The hotel is the setting for the MPSA conference. The hotel is also the setting of an early scene of Thomas Pynchon’s “Against the Day.”. Industrialist Scarsdale Vibe meets Inventer Extrordinaire, Heino Vanderjuice and offers him a massive amount [...]
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    Posted: April 03, 2009, 11:31am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • MPSA: Preliminaries

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    Palmer House Lobby: Name Tag, Membership Card, Program: [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 6:20pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • MPSA Blogging

    I’m in Chicago for the Midwest Political Science Association.  I had to get a photo of the sign welcoming MPSA participants at the airport, because I’ve never had that happen to me before… More on the conference once registration starts at 4.   [...]
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    Posted: April 01, 2009, 11:54am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Posner and Barber on the Geithner Plan

    Richard Posner’s understanding of the Geithner plan on “toxic assets” and why we ought to be satisfied with it as a solution is very well stated.   A problem with that approach, however–a political rather than an economic problem, if politics can be separated from economics in a depression (I don’t [...]
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    Posted: March 31, 2009, 9:25am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Some Thoughts on USA-El Salvador…

    Match report here: My own player ratings:   Brad Guzan - 5 - Had no chance on either of the goals, but he missed too many balls he came out to get, and could not organize the defense.  With Califf and Pearce in the back, that’s not an easy task to do, [...]
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    Posted: March 30, 2009, 10:02am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • DOTW: Paraguay-Uruguay

    It’s a World Cup Qualifying weekend, so I’ll highlight the battle for spots in South America.  Uruguay hosts South American leaders Paraguay this weekend.  Uruguay is sitting in the same 5th place spot they finished Qualifying in last cycle, which lead to their surprise defeat to the Socceroos.  The 5th [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 3:38pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Some Data on Citizen Debt…

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    Five Thirty-Eight has a nice post on the increase in debt per household and it’s effect on the economy.  The data is interesting to me in part because it corrects my perceptions about credit card debt.  The image below is from Nate Silver’s post.     I thought it might be useful to [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 5:00pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Well, yeah, you used to play in St. Petersburg…

    Andrei Arshavin likes us, he really, really likes us.  That’s good, because that feeling is very mutual.  Let me show you why. [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 3:54pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Can I bring a Gavel? Can it be 3 feet long?

    I am now chairing my first MPSA panel. [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 3:42pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • New Layout

    What think you of the new layout? [...]
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    Posted: March 25, 2009, 2:54pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Restructuring the NHL…

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    I used to be a huge New York Islanders fan, and I used to really love the NHL.  I also went to more Hershey Bears AHL games than I can count.  I haven’t watched hockey with any seriousness since I was in college.  To me, there are too many teams, [...]
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    Posted: March 24, 2009, 9:05pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Allan Bloom quote to ponder….

    “Regimes depend on men’s virtues, not on institutions; if the highest virtues are not present in the rulers, an inferior regime must be instituted.”     Bloom is talking about what he thinks one of the critical lessons of The Republic is.  I have to say that I am somewhat warm to the statement. [...]
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    Posted: March 02, 2009, 4:06pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • The New White House Dog Breed is…

    Not the same as mine.  I’m just really glad that the Obama’s did not choose a golden doodle.  It saves me lots of questions about mine being the same age as theirs and is that why we picked it, etc…   Here’s my dog… [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2009, 11:51am EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • General Motors…

    The phrase sunk cost comes to mind in hearing their latest news. [...]
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    Posted: February 26, 2009, 8:23am EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • The role of leaders…

    In the class I am co-teaching, my colleague asked the students, with regard to Antigone, “was Creon wrong to think people would see him as weak for changing his mind?”   The question led to a discussion on why we do not let our leaders change opinion.  One student pointed out [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2009, 4:01pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • DOTW: Catalan Derby

    This week’s derby of the week takes us to Catalonia, the half-origin of Stephen Maturin, art, and cultural center, and a spirited and independent coastal region of Southern Europe.  Barcelona seem to be the consensus best football team on planet earth right now, and Lionel Messi the best player.  Espanyol are [...]
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    Posted: February 18, 2009, 1:23pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Classical rivals…

    I’m going to see Joshua Bell play Barber’s Violin Concerto with Minnesota Orchestra on Thursday.   I like to be familiar with pieces before I go to hear them, so I went to download the piece.  I didn’t see a Bell recording, but there was on by Hilary Hahn who is [...]
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    Posted: February 17, 2009, 9:33am EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Dos a Cero

    “Dos a Cero.”   The chant from Sam’s Army must be getting quite tired for Mexican football.  It has become such a part of the recent rivalry that you can pretty much write off Mexico when they get down 1-0 in the US every time because they are equally as [...]
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    Posted: February 14, 2009, 11:05am EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • DOT(M)W - USA MEXICO TONIGHT

    How good is this rivalry?  Voodoo dolls are being sold to Mexico fans of a USA footballer with the name “gringo” on the back of the kit.  You cannot make this stuff up!   UPDATE:  USA XI for tonight: GK Tim Howard (Everton) RB Frankie Hejduk (Columbus Crew) CB Carlos Bocanegra (Rennes) CB Oguchi Onyewu [...]
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    Posted: February 11, 2009, 4:10pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • DOT(M)W: USA-Mexico 2/11/09 Pt. 1

    Some youtube clips worth making your acquaintance with if you want to be up on your NAFTA Derby.   Below: The last time they played, a friendly between USA and Mexico.  (Programming note: Drew Moore, who did not do very well marking Johnny Magillon, will not be in Wednesday’s match.  USA Goal scorer’s [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2009, 6:03pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Derby of the Week:

    As a potential new blog feature, I am planning on picking a major soccer rivalry/derby to cover for the week.  I will try and give a sense of the history, the cultural interest and the news during the run-up for these big time matches.  This weekend seems a good time [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2009, 3:51pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Oh those Grammys…

    I have often joked that I could get a grammy award simply by angling for one of the grammy’s ridiculous categories that seems so specific that it elimintaes every other person on earth.  I can picture it now, “and the grammy for the best album recorded of songs sung by [...]
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    Posted: February 09, 2009, 2:08pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Solving or Relocating the Problem?

    My lectures on some topics go on a bit because I’m so excited about setting up the connections between things in the course.  This year’s list includes the fact that Antigone was performed at a festival for Dionysus and Nietzsche hails Dionysus in On the Genealogy of Morals, Creon could be seen as a [...]
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    Posted: February 03, 2009, 5:48pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • 3 People From Throughout History for Lunch

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    The interview question “If you could have lunch with any 3 people alive or dead, who would they be?”  is supposed to be insightful because who you choose says something about who you admire.  Yet how often have you ever thought to yourself at lunch, “man I wish the people [...]
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    Posted: January 26, 2009, 12:24am EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Arsene Wenger’s secret agenda…

    This is how brilliant Arsene Wenger is as a manager.  He is being wooed by Real Madrid, who promise to bring him Cesc Fabergas and Kaka (or Christiano Ronaldo - life is hard at Real).  However, knowing how much money that Arsenal will have to spend once he’s gone (since [...]
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    Posted: January 22, 2009, 10:29pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • I DECIDE

    Well I’m not sure what terrorists would do in my back yard, but if they were willing to scare off the dog who freely wanders through my yard and the people who use the heated smoking porch in back of the bar/restaurant that backs onto the end of my lot… I [...]
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    Posted: January 22, 2009, 10:19pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Previously on Lost…

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    Many of my friends laugh at my suggestion that I trust the creative team of Lost has a coherent road map for their story.  I told them I’d start doubting the show if they kept raising more questions than they answered after the point in time when the promised it [...]
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    Posted: January 22, 2009, 10:54am EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Hey, I met her….

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    Here’s the most unconventional inauguration day post you’ll probably read.  I was absolutely thrilled to see the performance of the John Williams arrangement.  When Senator Feinstein was reading the performers names for the piece, Itzhak Perlman (of course), Yo Yo Ma (do they get any more famous), Anthony McGill (don’t [...]
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    Posted: January 20, 2009, 11:56am EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Las Vegas

    I am at the airport in Las Vegas and have some yime to reflect on my visit. The Strip has what initially appears to be quite a remarkable economy, with so many different entreprenuers, clients, middlemen, and celebrity talent - it seems like anything is possible. What seems to happen [...]
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    Posted: January 13, 2009, 4:55pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Just a Reminder…

    Orbitz just sent me an email reminder about my trip to Las Vegas this weekend.  Two questions:  1 - who would forget that they are going to Las Vegas?  2 - Who would forget they were going to take a plane trip more generally?        [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2009, 7:33pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Rick Reilly on the BCS…

    I am beginning to think that the BCS Championship game is never going to happen because I read about how it is a big game coming up, and then the next day I read the same thing.  It’s like groundhog day, College Football is Chris Elliot… only I am denied [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2009, 1:08pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Michael Lewis on the Financial System…

    I highly recommend this article from Michael Lewis of the New York Times on our financial woes.  A heavy handed trivia question: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Karl Polyani, Charles Lindblom: what do they all have as a common emphasis that Frederick von Hayek, James Mill, Milton Friedman, John Maynard Keynes, [...]
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    Posted: January 06, 2009, 9:43am EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Home Ownership

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    We now own a house.  We are moving into the house on Friday.  We already have a plumber coming, and are scheduling an electrician and a locksmith to come, we need a fridge, a dryer, maybe a dishwasher, and our furnace could go at any moment.  So, we’ve got quite [...]
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    Posted: December 30, 2008, 4:47pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • I like to drink it at breakfast…

    A very fun and interesting article on the perils and joys of prosecco’s growing popularity.  I must confess I prefer it to Champagne because I can drink more of it without feeling like I’ve been smacked in the back of the head (which is how I feel after I  drink [...]
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    Posted: December 30, 2008, 10:49am EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Samuel Huntington

    I just wanted to note the passing of political scientist Samuel P. Huntington.  Read about it here.        [...]
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    Posted: December 29, 2008, 4:25pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • The Open Eye Holiday Pageant

    I went to the Open Eye Figure Theater’s The Holiday Pageant by Michael Sommers.  It was really fantastic.  The fact that weather.com says that Minneapolis “Feels like -22″ is less fantastic.   The Holiday Pageant is the story of Christmas told from the point of view of Lucifer and his lowest minion. [...]
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    Posted: December 16, 2008, 11:56pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Back

    Wasn’t feeling well.  Am now feeling better.  Back to writing (of many different stripes, but definitely including blogging).        [...]
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    Posted: December 16, 2008, 11:40pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Thomas Kincaid - Rule Follower

    Vanity Fair has the list of “16 Rules to follow for the Thomas Kincaid look.”  I cannot help but be reminded of the existentialist complaint that strict rule-following only gets you elementary knowledge and not mastery.        [...]
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    Posted: November 18, 2008, 4:35pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • The Quantum of Fitness

    No, this is not a post about Daniel Craig’s abdominal muscles.  I’m about three or four hours from seeing the new Bond movie for my birthday.  I was reading Nietzsche today, looking, to pile on the word plays, for a quantum of solace of my own after attending a rather [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2008, 4:15pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Economic Man?

    I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organisations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms — Alan Greenspan (200   The outstanding discovery of recent historical and anthropologicalresearch is that man’s economy, as [...]
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    Posted: November 13, 2008, 3:32pm EST
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  • Way to not legislate from the bench…

    “Even if plaintiffs have shown irreparable injury from the Navy’s training exercises, any such injury is outweighed by the public interest and the Navy’s interest in effective, realistic training of its sailors,” Roberts wrote. From The Washington Post. It would please me greatly to say this get reversed by an executive order [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2008, 1:13pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • “Against the Day” at 225 pages…

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    Traverse.  They are the family that seem to connect the stories of everyone else.  Telling last name.  I just learned from Reef Traverse, that his father, named Webb Traverse, was in fact the famed Western Outlaw, The  Kielseguhr Kid. As Reef is taking Webb home for burial, he passes time reading [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2008, 11:58am EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Snow!

    Since it is snowing in the Twin Cities, (though it doesn’t look like the picture in the paper this far south) I am using my personal authority to declare it acceptable to listen to The Nutcracker out of season.        [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2008, 9:15am EST
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  • I think I’m going to have a heart attack and die from not surprise

    It turns out that professors have little influence on the political views of students.  Parents, on the other hand, have an incredibly strong pull, which is why they are so good at convincing their children that Professors make people “more liberal” even though there is not a shred of evidence. [...]
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    Posted: November 07, 2008, 8:36am EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • The Empirical Presidency?

    Many people have already infused their hopes and wishes into the soon-to-be Obama administration.  Let me add my wish:  I wish for a return to a re-professionalization of our Federal Administration, the free and full access of government scientific studies, and a foreign policy done wth full and open consultation [...]
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    Posted: November 05, 2008, 9:41am EST
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  • The Aftermath…

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    Another reason to oppose electing judges… over half of my paper ballot was circling votes for incumbent judges who ran unopposed.        [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2008, 3:29pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Professional Conduct…

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    I am taking the Volokh Conspiracy off of my feed.  This post is the reason.  It is NOT acceptable for a Professor to talk in such casually degrading terms about academic colleagues.  Professor Zywicki’s comments, if they were at a job talk, or at a dissertation defense, or were makng [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2008, 8:54am EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • The Airborne Toxic Event…

    I don’t listen to alternative music very much, but I was playing Fifa 09 tonight (playing a season as Villareal -don’t ask how it’s going) and I noticed that there was a song from a band called “The Airborne Toxic Event.” I don’t remember anything about the song, but I [...]
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    Posted: November 04, 2008, 2:09am EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • George Mason Law Students Need A New Faculty

    Todd Zywicki writes on Volokh: This Maryland Freshman is dealing fine with life on the field, but off the field he has no idea what hit him. Who in the world thought it would be a good idea for him to take a “Women’s Literature” class in the modern university? If I were to [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2008, 10:44pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Party Coalitions and the Future

    The best analysis of how party coalitions are formed in American politics that I have encountered is Gary Miller and Norman Schofield’s “The Transformation of the Republican and Democratic Party Coalitions in the U.S.” in the most recent Perspectives on Politics.  The abstract of their article reads: Because the space of [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2008, 9:56pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Free Advice for Republicans….

    There’s some soul-searching going on in light of the fact that most people don’t seem to expect McCain to convert his 3.6% 1.9% chance of winning.  I would advise someone in the Republican party to examine Galston and Kamarck’s excellent essay “The Politics of Evasion” about the Democratic Party in the late [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2008, 8:35pm EST
    by stevenmaloney

  • Bad news for any future sons of mine…

    Male attractiveness is not passed genetically from father to son.        [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2008, 11:10am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Dan Quayle’s Russian Kin?

    Russian Communist Party member’s attack James Bond for political points.  My favorite claim: The party’s leader, Sergei Malinkovich, said: “Everyone knows that the CIA and MI6 finance James Bond films as a special operation of psychological warfare against us. This Ukranian girl sleeps with Bond and that means that Ukraine is [...]
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    Posted: October 31, 2008, 11:08am EDT
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  • Media Counterstrike…

    Socrates would likely approve.  A good way for the media to appear both neutral and a meaningful source of information, it has always seemed to me, was to ask questions that force people to explain themselves.  It’s hardly unpopular, 60 Minutes has done it for decades.  CNN Anchor Rick Sanchez [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2008, 10:46pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • War Briefing…

    You HAVE to see this Frontline piece on the Taliban/Al Qaeda probelm that waits for the next President…        [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2008, 10:19pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Working the Refs…

    There is no more perniciously undemocratic notion than the claim, “If I am losing a democratic argument, it is because of unfairness.”  Yet, we see electoral losers float this argument in the face of losses all the time.  The absolute immodesty the claim entails utterly reeks of stupidity.  If there are no [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2008, 12:58pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • From the New World…

    I’m listening to Dvorak’s 9th Symphony.  Some thoughts on musical borrowing come to mind.   large parts of this piece sound an awful lot like Beethoven’s 9th. certain movements of this piece are familiar to me as part of James Horner’s Star Trek music scores (also heavily influenced by Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from [...]
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    Posted: October 27, 2008, 12:35pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • From this day ’till the ending of the world…

    Happy Saint Crispin’s day.  Here’s what it means to Kenneth Branagh:        [...]
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    Posted: October 25, 2008, 11:57pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • “High up above, Aliens orbit…”

    The quite funny John Hodgman on the existence of extraterrestrials. I love the literal, almost Dylan Thomas-like literary quality of Hodgman’s humor.        [...]
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    Posted: October 24, 2008, 12:30pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Harrowdown Hill

    I just discovered what Thom Yorke’s “Harrowdown Hill” is about: wow.  Here’s the lyrics to the song: Don’t walk the plank like I did You will be dispensed with When you’ve become inconvenient Up on Harrowdown Hill Where you used to go to school Thats where I am Thats where I’m lying down Did I fall or was I [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2008, 1:12pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Pynchon blogging

    I’m now past where I have read before in Against the Day. Only 900 pages to go. Something I think I have noticed so far. I remember reviews saying that ATD is Pynchon’s “most accessible” book. I think I know why. Pynchon’s usual MO is to tell traditional stories in [...]
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    Posted: October 23, 2008, 12:17pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Against the Day - Take Three

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    I’m on my third attempt at Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon.  I have never ventured much past page 100, but I blame my dissertatin on that.  Free of such bonds, I am making a new effort, and I am struck by the role that history and science plays in [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2008, 1:33am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • They needed soemthing to replace Eddie Lewis, I guess…

    Wallace and Gromit… and football.  How could I pass up a link to that?  I guess Wallace and Gromit are from Lancashire?        [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2008, 12:34am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Where is Nashville?

    A follow up query, if I may.  My beloved Nashville, is it in “real America” or “fake America?”  Think about it.  The city votes Democratic, it has an outstanding symphony, Vanderbilt the best Starbucks I’ve ever been to (on 21st Avenue next to Mellow Mushroom) and a nice Opera season.  [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2008, 12:24am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • A Request Sent Into the Aether…

    Can we please stop doing this urban/rural divide? For those too lazy to link to Yglesias, I have the Youtube clip below: You know why I hate to hear stuff like that?  Because I’m an elitist, which is to say that I worked hard in school (apparently the only place Protestants [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2008, 12:17am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • The Ambivalent Clinton

    I was eating lunch the other day at a place that had CNN on the tv, and they had some sort of news show where people could post their thoughts on the CNN ticker as the news was discussed.   Someone wrote on the ticker that it was “very telling” that [...]
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    Posted: October 19, 2008, 2:41pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • The Emmylou Harris of Democratic Theory?

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    Two new collaborative projects have been accepted for publication this week.  Both are collaborative efforts.  I am grateful for both and thrilled to be working with such fantastic co-conspirators, but I’m beginning to worry if people are going to worry that I cannot write a solo album.  The truth is, [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2008, 3:23pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Blindness

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    I have not yet read Blindness by Jose Saramango, nor have I seen the film.  But I am pretty sure that the protest I read about in The New York Times about the depiction of the blind misses the point of the stories imagery.  I would like to read the [...]
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    Posted: October 16, 2008, 3:18pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Lifetime Ban…

    For the person who yelled a racially offensive comment at DC United Keper Louis Crayton in Houston.  Credit goes out to the Houston Dynamo security for nabbing the person responsible.  They should never be allowed in an MLS event ever again.  This is something that you just cannot do in [...]
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    Posted: October 14, 2008, 12:07am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • You Can’t Do That on Television:

    From Peter Levine’s “top ten things you can’t say if you’re running for President“: 8. In the Senate, I voted for many provisions that I disagreed with–and for some that were totally indefensible–because they were packaged into bills that I thought were worth passing. This will continue to happen in my [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2008, 11:04am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Reason Time with Orin Kerr

    Professor Kerr thinks that ABC news’ story on surveillance has been oversold: But it seems pretty clearly incorrect to say that this story suggests that Bush and the intelligence heads were lying about the Terrorist Surveillance Program the New York Times first reported on in 2005. The problem is that this [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2008, 11:41am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Interesting question….

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    Yesterday I posted about the drought of the United States in the Nobel Prize for Literature.  The comment by Skates raises an interesting follow up:  If we take Pynchon off the table, and we take Toni Morrison off the table (for already winning) - what is the most important literary [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2008, 10:26am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Your Patriot Act at Work

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    There is a scene in the movie The Money Pit, where something happens in the house he is trying to rebuild that has gone so far across the line into absurdity, and will be so expensive to fix that all Hanks’ character can do is laugh maniacally for two minutes. [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2008, 2:01pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Troy Perkins interview…

    The United States is still, in many ways, a third rate soccer nation.  The nice side of that, however, is that you get wonderful stories like that of Troy Perkins.  Troy started at DC United as a backup to Nick Rimando, and worked part-time at a sporting goods store to [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2008, 1:38pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • iPhoning it in

    I am trying out the free wordpress app for my iPhone. I just finished teaching Rawls’ “Justice as Fairness” and one of my students said she heard someone say on a recent episode of Charlie Rose that Obama “gets Rawls.” I wonder what Rawls might have thought about that. I [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2008, 12:36pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Nobel Prize for Literature

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    The biggest non-surprise story of the day: Americans were again shut out of the Nobel Prize for Literature.  Since Mr. Engdahl, the permanent Secretary for the Nobel Comittee went on a tirade against American fiction, it is no surprise that we are quickly approaching two decades since an American was [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2008, 9:50am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • The Israel Question from last night’s debate…

    Andrew thinks the Israel question in last night’s debate was nonsensical: If Iran attacks Israel with nuclear weapons (the prevention of which is the scenario both candidates chose to address), the United States committing troops isn’t going to do anyone any good. On the other hand, if Iran attacks Israel with [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2008, 11:50am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Emergency Rate Cut…

    I’m not an economist, but I believe I have heard repeatedly that the reason the Federal Reserve was reluctant to do an emergency rate cut at this point was because rates were so low, if they cut them anymore, they won’t be able to use it as a tool later [...]
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    Posted: October 08, 2008, 11:32am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Leila Countdown Extravaganza!

    Handel’s “Messiah”! Joshua Bell! “Missa Solemnis”!  Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Project!  Steven’s new Minnesota Orchestra Season ticket package has been confirmed!  Oh, and in case you thought I had forgot: It is 199 days, 16 hours, 2 minutes and 20 seconds until the Leila Josefowicz show, and I have [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2008, 3:59pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • A Praire Home Companion 35th Anniversary Street Party

    I went to the street party for A Praire Home Companion on Exchange Street in Saint Paul on Sunday.  The blurry white thing on the stage in the dark photos would be Mr. Keilor.        [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2008, 2:22pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Major League Soccer: The Only League Desinged by Chimps

    DC United would throw in the towel for the season… but the towell is already playing up on the right.  DCU’s designated player Marcello Gallardo, is out for the rest of the season, denying us any chance of seeing whether he is an actual person, or just the latest money [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2008, 1:50pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Sickest. Goal. Ever.

    Who’s the world’s most underrated striker?  In my view, it’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He’s never mentioned in aocnversation as one of the world’s best, but he should be.  Here’s proof.  There is no way that you could move your leg like this at any speed, much less do it that quickly [...]
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    Posted: October 06, 2008, 9:45am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • Robert Baer on “Fresh Air” (hey, that rhymes!)

    Former CIA super-spook Robert Baer was on Fresh Air the other day, I just listened to the podcast today.  I found his account of Iranian politics and the trajectory of our foreign policy highly plausible.  He also mentions something that I hadn’t thought of before: Iran can retaliate against the [...]
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    Posted: October 04, 2008, 12:18am EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • “Where I come from it’s called fairness”

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    Professor Brian Kalt is dissapointed with Senator Biden’s legal views: First, when asked why he supported the decision in Roe, Biden said “Because it’s as close to a consensus that can exist in a society as heterogeneous as ours.” That’s a preposterous answer, for three reasons. First, anyone who can put [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2008, 4:07pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • On Hail Mary’s

    Matt Yglesias writes on Charles Krauthammer’s “Hail Mary” Theory today.   Krauthammer writes: Krauthammer’s Hail Mary Rule: You get only two per game. John McCain, unfortunately, has already thrown three. The first was his bet on the surge, a deep pass to David Petraeus who miraculously ran it all the way into the end zone. Then, [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2008, 3:11pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • October Surprise in Washington, DC

    We’re talking about Soccer, of course! USA’s manager Bob Bradley promised us a “surprise” when he announced his squad for the game against Cuba at RFK on Oct. 11.  Many speculated the surprise might be that he wouldn’t pick a team that anyone who follows the side thinks is terrible [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2008, 1:02pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney

  • I’ve been a bad, bad blogger

    This is one of those awkward, personal blog posts.  I have not been blogging regularly for some time.  While my life has been fantastic the last two years, the trajectory of my blogging has, in general, been heading in the other direction.  What has caused the decline?  Several major events. [...]
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    Posted: October 03, 2008, 12:43pm EDT
    by stevenmaloney
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