Tag: podcasts

2023.08.09 – media_log

Why Televising the Trump Trial Is a Bad IdeaI think it’s important that Nick Akerman compared it immediately to a Mafia trial. And I think he’s right. I think anybody that calls for this child to be televised it’s just looking for ratings, a cash cow, and not thinking about the integrity of the process. A boy on the autism spectrum struggled with a haircut. …

Looking forward to the “Outliers” episode (there will be one, right?)

This is classic economics-guy thing, where they act like the narratives that they map onto the data, are themselves just as infallible as the data…The idea that there is always something hidden, right, seems to be lurking here… Peter Shamshiri, “Freakonomics,” If Books Could Kill I’ve read enough college composition history to know that there is a long stretch of time in the academy where …