Matt Labash, mocking the very idea of memes in the Weekly Standard, writes: I have always detested the word meme, and not just because it was coined by Richard Dawkins, though that certainly helps. The concept was originated by Dawkins in his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene,...
Month: June 2012
More of this, please. And, of course, the judiciary is going to have to be vigilant as well.
Corey Robin provoked a bit of disagreement recently tweeting this: Touters of Obama's effect on public opinion re gay marriage: I'm going to remember that next time we play a.
Brian Tamanaha has a piece in the New York Times, summarizing some of the main contentions and recommendations of his new book Failing Law Schools. Brian's description of the situation in legal education is refreshingly concise: The economics of legal education are broken. The problem...
This just irritates me. Sirota reports on Obama's Memorial Day speech: "You were often blamed for a war you didn't start, when you should have been commended for serving your.
1. I know we all took the words of charter school advocates very, very seriously. It was all about the students and not about busting the teacher unions at all..
Tomorrow, I am attending the American Craft Beer Festival in Boston. Some advice is in order. Having never been to an event like this, I'm trying to figure out what strategy I should take. Should I stick with a particular type of beer and try...
For the reasons outlined by Pierce, Marcotte and especially Cohen, I'm glad that for the mistrial/acquittal in the John Edwards prosecution. There's essentially no chance that Edwards would have been.