A conservative writer has options. They could, for example, pursue journalism. Alternatively, they could join with Tucker Carlson and do whatever it is that the Daily Caller does. One of the latter is Jim Treacher, the Daily Tucker blogger for people who find Mickey Kaus...
Month: August 2014
The NFL is now retroactively applying its belief that musicians who perform at the Super Bowl should not only pay for the privilege, but should also pay the NFL for.
Earlier this year, the Regents of the University of Kansas ended academic freedom in the state, making something called the "improper use of social media" a firable offense for tenured.
Dylan Matthews dug up Neil Genzlinger's New York Times' original review of The Wire. To say the least, it hasn't aged well. It's all served up in dialogue heavy with police-speak and dealer-speak, sometimes unintelligibly so. The language is supposed to be realistic and maybe...
If Marcus Mariota makes a dime off this, then my enjoyment of college football will be ended forever. Oregon is selling 25 different jerseys, counting colors and sizes, of No..
This is some disturbing footage. In Petersburg, Virginia, the police arrested people next door to the home of JaQuan Fisher. He started recording them. The police then attacked Fisher violently..
I don't know about you, but I'm pretty confident that if a unarmed white kid from suburbs was shot dead by the police we wouldn't be informed by the Paper of Record that he was "no angel" because of a minor alleged shoplifting. And this!...
Shorter Thomas Frank and Cornel West: I'm going to pretend to be deeply disillusioned that Obama didn't turn out to be the Scandinavian social democrat there was absolutely no evidence.
In the corporate university, money is what counts. Without public support, universities have become captured by the wealthy donors and corporations who fund them. This is a major contributor to.
Daniel Payne longs to shame the poor while capitalizing "The Left" as often as possible: Here’s What Happens Without Stigma That’s easier said than done. The Left wishes to make it a no-big-deal kind of thing because the Left wants the citizenry as dependent upon...
It's the 200th anniversary of the burning of Washington! Tea Party types must feel very conflicted... ...And shit like this is why the British Empire fell. Commemorating the 200th anniversary.
As is so often the case, Bonnie Honig's letter to the UIUC chancellor regarding the firing of Steven Salaita is illuminating and provocative; she asks what it would mean to.