Citizens United Cartography
From NPR: Explore political ad spending through creative cartography. This animated map shows where superPACs and other outside groups spent their money — over a six-month period during the general...
View ArticleThe Situation of Political Polarization
From This American Life: Everyone knows that politics is now so divided in our country that not only do the 2 sides disagree on the solutions to the country’s problems, they don’t even agree on what...
View ArticleMichael Pollan on the Political Situation of Food
Host Harry Kreisler welcomes writer Michael Pollan for a discussion of the agricultural industrial complex that dominates consumer choices about what to eat. He explores the origins, evolution and...
View ArticleRobert Lustig on Effects and Politics of Sugar
Dr. Robert Lustig (Sugar: The Bitter Truth) speaks at Yale’s Peabody Museum on the policy and politics of the “Sugar Pandemic.” Hosted by the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity. Related...
View ArticleRyan Enos – SALMS Talk
SALMS hosted Ryan Enos at Harvard Law School on October 11, 2012, for a talk entitled “Mitt Romney Is Really, Really Good Looking: Do Attractiveness and Other Trivial Things Affect Elections?” The...
View ArticleCarl Hart on The Drug War – SALMS Talk Today!
The Drug War: A Psychological Problem-A Conversation with Carl Hart Tuesday, March 12th, 12pm-1pm Langdell South Lunch talk featuring Dr. Carl Hart, Assistant Professor of Clinical Neuroscience in the...
View ArticleEliot Spitzer – Today at HLS
Discussion with Eliot Spitzer on Corporations in America. Wed., March 27, 12 – 1 P.M. Austin North. Lunch served. Courtesy of Professor Hanson’s Corporations class (aka “Like a Virgil”), please...
View ArticleFrontier Tort – Selling Beer in Whiteclay
At Harvard Law School in the fall of 2012, the 80 students in Professor Hanson’s situationist-orient torts class participated in an experimental group project in their first-year torts class. The...
View ArticleThe Interior Situation of the Climate Change Skeptic
From the APS Observer, an article by Situationist Contributor John T. Jost and Erin P. Hennes A multitude of environmental scientists, among others, worry that future generations will look back at the...
View ArticleThe Financial Situation of Think Tanks
For The Nation, Ken Silverstein has a revealing article, titled “The Secret Donors Behind the Center for American Progress and Other Think Tanks.” Paying special attention to the Center for American...
View Article“The Future of Equality” ACS Conference – This Weekend
The American Constitution Society Northeast Regional Student Convening will bring together lawyers and law students from across the Northeast to hear leading practitioners, government officials,...
View ArticleThe Situation of Criminal Defense
An op-ed by Situationist friend, Sam Wheeler in (Talking Points): On November 27, 1770, John Adams began the most important trial of his legal career. His clients were eight British soldiers who, when...
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