Category Archives: Pol 150 Contemporary Political Issues

Pol 150: Hydrofracking articles

Posted on December 10, 2012 by proftp

Hello all. Here are the articles you should read for Thursday’s class: Chris Mooney, The Truth About Fracking, Scientific American, 10.19.11 Kathleen Hartnett White, The Fracas about Fracking, National Review, June 2012 Happy reading!

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Pol 150: Religion and society

Posted on October 23, 2012 by proftp

UPDATE: I just clicked on that first link—and it wouldn’t let me read the d—-d article! Okay, so here’s what you need to do: plug “is religion good for society” into your search engine. The link should show up near … Continue reading →

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Pol 150: Online reading

Posted on October 14, 2012 by proftp

I almost forgot to post the link to a reading for this week; here it is: Judith Jarvis Thomson, A Defense of Abortion

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Pol 150: A convenient post!

Posted on September 23, 2012 by proftp

Walter McDougall just happened to have published a blog post this month about his book, Promised Land, Crusader State and the insights therein regarding the limits to American exceptionalism. You might want to check it out.

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