[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX_Vzl-r8NY] At the conclusion of her tremendous keynote presentation on Friday, Kim Crenshaw shared the above video (an animated film for the African American Policy Forum), as an example of one of the ways that she and her collaborators have
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Kimberlé Crenshaw will lead a symposium about race, legal education and justice in the wake of the events in Ferguson. The even is sponsored and organized by Harvard Students for Inclusion and co-sponsored by La Alianza, APALSA, BLSA, MLSA, NLG,
Paul Krugman believes that liberals are situationists, while conservatives are dispositionists: Liberals talk about circumstances; conservatives talk about character. As a case in point, he suggests that the only way to stop the extremely wealthy from engaging in conspicuous consumption is to
From an article by Tyler S. Olkowski, for The Crimson: Nearly half of the Harvard Law School student body signed an open letter to President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder in the wake of recent grand jury decisions
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page (2014). Perspectives on Politics, Volume 12, Issue 03, September 2014 pp 564-581 Abstract: Each of four theoretical traditions in the study of American
From Amnesty International (includes a link): . . . The recent spate of incidents of lethal force used against men of color by law enforcement from New York to Los Angeles has once again demonstrated the need to take a
An article of interest in the latest issue of Psychological Science: Subjective Status Shapes Political Preferences, by Jazmin L. Brown-Iannuzzi, Kristjen B. Lundberg, Aaron C. Kay B. Keith Payne (November, 2014). Introduction Economic inequality is at historically high levels and
Paul Piff, a social psychologist, presented some of his collabarators’ recent research on the disturbing situational effects of wealth in a recent TEDx talk. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ8Kq1wucsk] Michael Lewis’s recent piece in The New Republic summarizes some of that research and some