links for 2009-06-17 Buce: I mean no disrespect to Cohen, whose account of the collapse of Bear, Stearns is crisp, informed, and plausible. The trouble is that I can't remember a book where there were so many characters who were so hard to love... Shalizi: On the Certainty of the Bayesian Fortune-Teller Shalizi: Almost None of the Theory of Stochastic Processes Richard Wolin: Heidegger's Children Shalizi: Review of Gillian Tett, Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J. P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe Shalizi: Review of James R. Flynn, What Is Intelligence? Beyond the Flynn Effect Torie Atkinson: Star Trek Re-watch: “The Return of the Archons” Henry Blodget: Why Krugman's Not Worried About Inflation Moon Berube: On the Children of Garcetti Friedberg: The Struggle for Mastery in Asia Aaron Friedberg: Trade with China: Threat or Menace? Richard Baldwin: How many jobs are onshorable? Jonathan Watts: China backs down over controversial censorship software Eric Alterman: Howard Kurtz, who draws a regular paycheck from CNN... offers the lamest possible defense of CNN... regarding Iran but nowhere... inform[s] readers that he is in the pay of the network...
