Later today I’ll be presenting some of the results from my paper with Christel Koop at the Robert Schuman Centre at the EUI. Slides are here for those interested. I’ve gone for the white-on-black look with a very pared-down Beamer template.
So, I wanted to install a TikiWiki. I needed PHP5, and the server I was on didn’t have PHP5. So stuff got migrated over to a new server. That broke my blog. I though, I’ll reinstall WordPress on the server, and, after having carefully backed up the MySQL database, deleted the folder and started again. [...]
From yesterday’s New York Times: Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, No. 08-861, for instance, concerns an issue that has engaged the court since the New Deal: at what point does the lack of presidential control over independent agencies violate separation-of-powers principles? The case arose from the last big financial crisis, the [...]
One of the strange parts of Italian television news — at least for those who come from Britain — is that the directors of the principal television news broadcasts often do direct-to-camera editorials. To me, the idea of an editorial seems to be an abandonment of the classical doctrine of impartiality, as espoused by most [...]