It seems that the latest strategy to defend Arizona's recently deceased anti-civil rights bill is to assert that it's really nothing, essentially a reiteration of rights that already exist. Via Roy, Rich Lowry exemplifies this approach: "The legislation consisted of minor clarifications of the state’s...
Month: February 2014
The University of Tulsa's law school has just announced that it is effectively cutting tuition by 54% for the incoming first year class, from $33,428 to $15,428. The cut is.
I have a piece in TNR on the new JAMA study finding no statistical change in obesity rates over the past decade in either adults or children. (The finding that.
I didn't expect to agree with the bottom line, but having seen several smart people recommend the new Harper's piece by the genuinely brilliant Adolph Reed Jr....I was expecting it to be better. It certainly has more interesting insights than similar arguments advanced by the...
As soon as Jeff Toobin's argument about Clarence Thomas people on various social media anticipated my response, and I can't disappoint.
The Kindle version of Grounded is now available. If I were you I'd wait until March 11, when you can take advantage of the UPK e-book loyalty program to get.
2010 broke new ground in Confederate nostalgia arguments--defining Denmark Vesey as a terrorist. Global War on Terror indeed. But there's now a Vesey statue up in Charleston, honoring the man who planned a slave rebellion in the heart of the slavery beast. There are some...
With Jan Brewer deciding she'd rather piss off the Tea Party than the Chamber of Commerce, the current wave of efforts to re-instate Jim Crow remains victory-free. Here in Ohio,.
Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled that despite a 2006 holding that one person could not consent to a search while another resident refused consent, the police could conduct a warrantless.
As with Shelby County, the claim that the insurance requirements in the ACA violate the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and/or the First Amendment contains multitudes of terrible arguments. I've focused on a couple -- the obvious lack of a "substantial burden" on religious belief and...
If it was up to me, the National Park Service would take over the boxcar turned house where Merle Haggard grew up and run it as a National Historic Site,.
I have a piece on how the market for college and postgraduate degrees resembles that for Veblen goods. The whole point of paying thousands of dollars for a Louis Vuitton.