links: week 4, podcast recommendations

A few days a friend asked me for my favorite radio shows and got me thinking about my current radio consumption. When I was growing up, I listened to my the NPR station in Boston for hours every day, yet I rarely listen to FM radio anymore. My “radio” listening these days is almost entirely [...]

links: week 3

putnam-rorty video via 3quarksdaily
Little video about the Putnam-Rorty debate and the revival of American pragmatism.
Inside Higher Ed :: Call to Arms for Academic Labor
Review of Marc Bosquet’s How the University Works: Higher Education and the Low-Wage Nation (book website)
Technology Review: “You Don’t Understand Our Audience”
Wonderful commentary by former NBC producer on what’s wrong with the [...]

links: first week of 2008

Convinced that I ought to have something to show for all the time I spent online last month, I thought I might try out posting a few links.
Economics

Brad DeLong’s Political Economy and American Economic History lectures at UC Berkeley are online and made good mp3 player fodder for me. DeLong’s a free trade neoliberal but [...]