A year of coups
In what amounts to another pointless exercise, the Washington Post repeated its 2013 map of countries most likely to have a coup. Of course, African countries are at the top of the list.
political science
'The Problem of Race'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLmUf9MgXcI The political scientist, Siba Grovogui, based at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, interviewed about two
The anti-politics machine
James Scott: "the majority of article publishing [in academia] is ... put together to help people get tenure, and that holds even for peer-reviewed articles."