Peter Lanza, father of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooter, has
given an interview that appears in this week's "New Yorker" and which
is being covered in the popular media, such as the NY Daily News; see:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/adam-lanza-evil-killed-heartbeat-dad-article-1.17
I'm about as liberal as they come.
It just seems to me that the liberal world-view fits the data better than any
alternative. Especially the "bootstraps" crap that I get tossed at me.
(Fundamental attribution error? Locus of control? All those things seem to
support the idea of a strong so
Someone a while back said that US academics are probably "middle of the road"
compared to academics in other countries and the general public in many
European countries. I split this into two dimensions:
Economic issues: (Low taxes, no government regulation, anti-union) - (High
taxes, gov
Well what a coincidence
Not _exactly_ about the liberty/equality trade off, but the economic
growth/equality trade of with government intervention (i.e. lack of freedom)
lurking in there somewhere:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/10/opinion/krugman-liberty-equality-efficiency.html?rref=opinion
On 3/10/2014 3:26 PM, John Kulig wrote:
If I had 10 seconds to size up a person, I'd ask which is more
important: liberty or equality? I go with equality - i.e.
Civilization and its Discontents.
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John W. Kulig, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Coordinator, Psychology H
I am surprised that people still see adopting a political ideology as a process
of data fitting as if it were a scientific theory about which evidence is being
gathered and the final crucial experiment has been conducted to demonstrate the
superiority of one over the other as an explanatory cons
Oh gosh ,. I am skipping the popcorn and reading a good book tonight!
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John W. Kulig, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Coordinator, Psychology Honors
Plymouth State University
Plymouth NH 03264
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- Original Message -
From: "Ken Stee
