Following up on Erik's post referencing today's NYT piece about the potentially invidious effects of industry funding academia (or academics), I'd like to throw out a few hypotheticals, some of which are closely related to some current goings-on in legal academia that I won't discuss...
Month: December 2013
From my correspondence, it appears a significant number of potential law students still think of becoming a government lawyer as a kind of backup plan, if their aspirations to get.
As a historian, I don't really have an opportunity to sell out by using my professional positions to provide expert testimony for Wall Street. But I wonder what that would.
The stories are sufficiently vague and from unreliable enough sources that I hope Lis Smith is still working for de Blasio. But to state what should be obvious, if she's pushed out it's a disgrace and an early black mark for his administration. She didn't...
If evangelical grifter John Hagee doesn't love our country and its freedom of religion, he should leave it and find a country that would deport atheists. I recommend Afghanistan circa.
My latest at the Diplomat examines the nexus of "smart" power and humanitarian assistance: Such maritime assistance programs do not guarantee that the recipients will support the geopolitical aims of.
Sasha Abramsky with a valuable look into the life of one fast food striker demanding a $15 an hour wage. You know what she wants that she can't have? Fruit. Roberts, who is now thirty-eight years old and working at a K.F.C. in Oakland, is...
Apologies or you're welcomes as applicable for the light blogging, as I continue on a highly enjoyable multi-country trip of family visits. Apparently, while I was away crackpot-even-by-NYPost-standards Andrea Peyser.
The defeat of the ag-gag bills in every state where agribusiness had them introduced was a major victory in 2013. Even if you don't care about animal rights, where animals.
The following is a guest post by my pet troll, who goes by many names, but for the purpose of this entry will go by “Desperately Sad Fuckface.” He’s taken a break from shitting his pants to write, so I hope you’ll reward his good...
At the National Interest I have some ruminations on the future of the F-35: What are we to make of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF)? Over the.
My son has recently become a fan of the show, Dino Dan. I’m something of a fan myself. And I’m now sorry I didn’t go to school in Canada, as.