Check out the repost of a nice Andrew Gelman piece on the perils of the "single definitive study". I'm not entirely sure what he means by "happy talk", but it's very apt as a description of the sort of academic gushing that seems to be required by the "impact agenda". Nothing against publicity, BTW, but perhaps one should have something worth saying first. Anyway, a good excuse to listen to REM.
America’s informal empire – what really went wrong in the Middle East
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In this edited excerpt from the introduction to What Really Went
Wrong, Fawaz A Gerges argues that US interventionism during the Cold War –
especially in I...
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