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Hannah Green interviews Josh Oppenheim Asia Times Online :: Skeletons in Indonesia's closet 14 Aug 2013 | 10:00 am
Asia Times Online :: Skeletons in Indonesia's closet INTERVIEW Skeletons in Indonesia's closet By Hannah Green LOS ANGELES - Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing is a transformative film. It pre....
How I wish I could get an unbundled subscription to the Wall Street Journal 28 Jul 2013 | 01:52 am
I cannot do my job without reading it, and its reporters are still excellent, even in the Murdoch era. And in general, I have learned to ignore the rantings of the editorial page, which basically say...
Hannah Green writes on the problem of how victims of rape who are college students are treated 27 Jul 2013 | 09:45 am
In Open Magazine (an Indian newsweekly), she writes: Angie Epifano always wears the same necklace. It is simple—a round blue stone set in silver on a silver chain. When something reminds her of her r...
Ten Favorite Metro Systems--A Personal View (reposted from Forbes blog). 25 Jul 2013 | 10:12 pm
10) New York. Butt ugly, smells bad, too many rats, but gets you a whole lot of places at reasonable speeds. 9) Washington, DC. Very pleasant, beautiful stations, and when working properly, fast. ...
Who Moves? Not Old People? (reposted from my Forbes blog) 25 Jul 2013 | 10:11 pm
A meme is out there that baby boomers, having raised their children, are ready to downsize. (See here). Some scholars, such as Arthur Nelson at Utah, say that as the population ages, there could be ...
House Prices in Southern California need to Rest now (reposted from Forbes). 18 Jul 2013 | 08:59 pm
From my Forbes blog: DataQuick today reported that house prices in Southern California have risen 28 percent from the last year. A year ago, people who were buying houses in this part of the world w...
The Internet is Truly Awesome (Leonard Bernstein Mahler edition). 30 Jun 2013 | 12:24 am
David Denby wrote a nice piece in the New Yorker a little over a year ago about this ten most "perfect" orchestra recordings of all time. Coming in at Number 5 was Leonard Bernstein's Mahler 7 (the s...
John Roberts is supposed to be a smart man. 26 Jun 2013 | 09:50 am
But he makes a specious argument. He says that because in the presence of Voting Rights Acts, there is no disparity in voter turn-out, there is no need for a Voting Rights Act. Huh?
Are models that assume linear utility useful? 23 Jun 2013 | 10:56 pm
I just saw a paper on how the desire of households to match with particular houses could explain housing market dynamics--in particular why house prices are more volatile than incomes. Performing suc...
If in 1987 you bought the average house in the average place... 21 Jun 2013 | 09:23 am
…you have about broken even relative to the consumer price index. The Case-Shiller National Index for March 1987 was 62.03; for March 2013, it was 136.70. The Consumer Price Index in March 1987 was 1...
