Category: Environment • Politics andScience • Technology
Posted on: January 8, 2009 11:35 AM, by Chris C.Mooney
That's thenews from the Chicago Tribune. I'm interested to hear whether anyenvironmentalists are going to be rattled by this choice. Sunstein is aningenious scholar, and continues the whole "best and brightest" motifof the Obama administration--so welcome after so many years of Bushanti-intellectualism. But on the other hand, some of Sunstein's views onregulation are controversial, although certainly very thoughtful.
Important question: Will he roll backthe Bush administration's overuse of the Data Quality Act?
By the way, I haven't read all ofSunstein's books, but I have read Republic.com,and it's really excellent and thought provoking. I think a lot of what we seein the blogosphere today--the grouping together of people into like-mindedonline groups (like the ScienceBlogs community to significant extent) wherethey then become ever stronger in their convictions--was predicted by Sunsteinback in 2001. It seems to me this book is very necessary reading today.
http://scienceblogs.com/intersection/2009/01/cass_sunstein_to_head_the_offi.php