politics

baby foot

August 17, 2010 04:01

Over the past few days, allegations of a frightening new terrorist plot have emerged.  Indeed, at the end of last week, Texas State Representative Debbie Riddle and Texas Congressman Louis Gohmert appeared on different editions of “Anderson Cooper 360” to sound the alarm that the Obama admi...

thesituationist

July 30, 2010 04:01

Situationist contributors Adam Benforado and Jon Hanson’s article “The Great Attributional Divide: How Divergent Views of Human Behavior are Shaping Legal Policy,” (57 Emory Law Review, 2008) recently made the SSRN all-time top-ten list for or Journal of Law & Society: Private...

Shirley Sherrod

July 27, 2010 04:01

Situationist friend Charles Ogletree and Johanna Wald had a terrific editorial this Sunday, titled “After Shirley Sherrod, We all Need To Slow Down and Listen,” in which, among other things, they discuss the relevance of research by Situationist Contributors Mahzarin Banaji and Jerry...

Law, Religion, Democracy, and the Purpose of Governments

July 22, 2010 18:30

Steven Menashi, Georgetown University Law Center, reviews Ian Buruma's Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents (Princeton, 2010), in Religion of Doubt, 129 Commentary 43-45 (June 2010). Here is the abstract. Liberal democracy and religion enjoy a strained...Steven Menashi,...

thesituationist

July 19, 2010 04:01

From TED.com:  The Gulf oil spill dwarfs comprehension, but we know this much: it’s bad. Carl Safina scrapes out the facts in this blood-boiling cross-examination, arguing that the consequences will stretch far beyond the Gulf — and many so-called solutions are making the situation ...