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- ARE PEOPLE LESS VIOLENT? (COMMENT). (2)
- Dick Weisfelder: My prior comment was just in the context of sports. Whether or not from Pinker, I have seen the...
- erik: It seems doubtful that human nature has changed. The most likely explanation would be that modern culture gives...
- HOW BANKS PREPARED FOR A U.S. DEFAULT. (2)
- GREECE’S ADVANTAGE IN THE CHICKEN GAME. (2)
- Nick: That makes sense. It reminds me of the stories Pater Familias would tell me about how in Boston the person with...
- Dick Weisfelder: Greece seems to me to be playing a game that Karl Deutsch called “underdog.” While one...
- FOOTBALL PLAYERS DELIBERATELY CAUSING CONCUSSIONS? (3)
- Nick: It was my understanding that boxing gloves were to protect the puncher’s hands and not the...
- Dick Weisfelder: Remember the Roman arenas? Bare knuckled boxing? Such injuries were taken as natural and accepted in...
- Mary Jane Schaefer: This isn’t about football. Or even sportsmanship. Well, it is about sportsmanship. But what...
- A 25 % CHANCE OF A EURO DEFAULT? (1)
- Nick: The fact that this has gone on for so long is pretty perplexing. The Economist is referring back to articles it...
- DECIDING WHAT KIND OF PATIENT YOU ARE. (1)
- Dick Weisfelder: One can be very open to new technology, but also risk averse. The recent debates about how to...
- THE EUROZONE—A CHICKEN GAME WHERE EVERY MEMBER CAN BLOW IT UP? (1)
- Mary Jane Schaefer: This is not a matter of chicken. These are all turkeys.
- ARE PEOPLE LESS VIOLENT? (COMMENT). (2)
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Category Archives: Politics
IS THERE HOPE FOR A BETTER NOMINATION PROCESS?
IS THERE HOPE FOR A BETTER NOMINATION PROCESS? Almost five years ago, I began a series of posts here, all of which expressed a hope for a better presidential nomination process. I had a quote from Michael Barone which summarized … Continue reading
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HOW CAN LOG ROLLING BE UNWOUND? (COMMENT).
HOW CAN LOG ROLLING BE UNWOUND? (COMMENT). I posted several times about looking at the budget negotiations as a chicken game and Dick Weisfelder commented here about how the negotiations turned out. A 12 person super committee was appointed to … Continue reading
WAS OUR FAMILY MIDDLE BROW?
WAS OUR FAMILY MIDDLE BROW? Looking at the Life article now, I come to the same conclusion that Elmer and I must have reached when we first encountered it. Our family was on the dividing line between Lower Middle Brow … Continue reading
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ROQUEFORT CHEESE—HIGH BROW, MIDDLE BROW OR LOW BROW?
ROQUEFORT CHEESE—HIGH BROW, MIDDLE BROW OR LOW BROW? The Clement Greenberg/ Dwight Macdonald break down of culture into Mass Culture and High Culture led to a famous set of articles by Russell Lynes which look now like a direct parody … Continue reading
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“THE ANSWER CANNOT TOTALLY BE ANSWERED.”
“THE ANSWER CANNOT TOTALLY BE ANSWERED.” I have chosen a different caption from this post on the You Knew What I Meant website, but the caption of the post is quite wonderful: “He was at the wrong place at the … Continue reading
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WHEN AUCTIONS WERE LAUGHABLE.
WHEN AUCTIONS WERE LAUGHABLE. L. Gordon Crovitz had an article in the Wall Street Journal (July 18) which describes some of the proposals for the federal government to use auctions of bandwidth rights to increase its revenues and to free … Continue reading
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THE LADY OR THE TIGER?—AN ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION.
THE LADY OR THE TIGER?—AN ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION. Francis Stockton wrote a famous story at the end of the nineteenth century—The Lady or the Tiger? My father told us the story a couple times at the dinner table. The story presents … Continue reading
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SIMPLE AND COMPLEX CHICKEN GAMES (COMMENT).
SIMPLE AND COMPLEX CHICKEN GAMES (COMMENT). Dick Weisfelder in his comment points out that in a real life game of chicken, there are more possible outcomes than that one player wins and the other loses. Think of the “chicken game” … Continue reading
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ANOTHER EXPLANATION FOR THE POLARIZATION OF POLITICS.
ANOTHER EXPLANATION FOR THE POLARIZATION OF POLITICS. This article by William Galston gives an explanation I had never thought of for the polarization of the political parties in recent years. I have thought the chief explanation is greatly improved gerrymandering. … Continue reading
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BRIGHT LINES IN NEGOTIATIONS.
BRIGHT LINES IN NEGOTIATIONS. Kids, I posted several times on the debt ceiling negotiations before it was resolved, and in this post I cited Thomas Schelling’s THE STRATEGY OF CONFLICT for its discussion of the game of “chicken.” Chicken is … Continue reading
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