Consider the Evidence

Lecture slides for my “Social Issues in America” course this fall are posted here. The topics:

1. Should we legalize marijuana?
2. Are humans causing dangerous climate change?
3. Should same-sex marriage be legal?
4. Is rising income inequality a serious problem?
5. Are Americans overtaxed?
6. Should we promote gender equality?
7. Why are some of us red and others blue?
8. Is party polarization bad?
9. What drives government policy?
10. Is big business ruining America?
11. What should we eat?
12. Are American universities failing?
13. Free trade or fair trade?
14. What should we do about immigration?
15. When should we intervene abroad?

Read Chris Dillow. It’s good for your brain.

It’s difficult to print blog posts. Few blogs have a “print-friendly” button, and the print-friendly formatting of those that do usually omits graphs that appear in the post.

“Readability” provides a solution. Go to the Readability website at lab.arc90.com/experiments/readability. Choose the font style and size and the margins you prefer. Then drag a Readability link onto your Bookmarks toolbar. Then, whenever you’re at a blog post you’d like to print (to pdf or hard copy), just click once on your new Readability toolbar button and the post is quickly formatted to print. Text and graphs in; ads and other junk out.

I’ve tried it on several blogs, including my own, and it seems to work nicely.

From “The Marketplace players” (audio)

Just an advance notice that I’m planning to not post at all in August.

is here.

Links to others Norman Geras has done, 240 so far, are here.