I argued that year that the United States should not have given a second's consideration to extraditing Amanda Knox had she been re-convicted of a murder she plainly didn't commit. Fortunately, this action will no longer be necessary. Glad someone else in the...
Month: March 2015
The historian Gregory Downs and the historian and visual designer Scott Nesbit have put together a pretty fantastic visualization of the U.S. Army occupation of the South during Reconstruction. Looking.
When you boil them down, defenses of the NCAA cartel boil down to a "if things were different, they wouldn't be the same" argument. Allegedly, the mystique of the NCAA.
Chait has an amusing discussion of Laurence Tribe's willingness to cash paychecks from Big Coal to make arguments better suited to the CATO institute blog: Tribe is playing an important legal role, which has to be evaluated on its own terms. Other law professors, like...
Reasonable Moderate Sam Alito and other theocrats claim that same-sex marriage is illegitimate because it is a brand new perversion of a perfect and long-lasting institution. This is of course.
Harry Reid is retiring -- an a presidential cycle, luckily. Kilgore on his legacy: We’ll soon get around to appreciations of what Reid accomplished and tried to accomplish, and an.
My response to the Roose John Bolton and Joshua Muravchik's warmongering op-eds came out earlier this week. My piece actually came out before the former, but as there's so...
Randall Kennedy has an interesting long book review of new biographies of Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael, and Huey Newton. I haven't read any of them, not even Manning Marable's acclaimed.
Greg Sargent has what I think is a pretty solid run-down of where progressive Democrats are with the Trans-Pacific Partnership. In short, it's not a strong hand. In this era.
This week in my film class, I made the students watch Birth of a Nation out of class and Superfly in class to get at depictions of African-Americans in film over the 20th century. The great Gordon Parks directed the latter and while it is...
It should go without saying that Indiana's Restoration of Bigotry Act is an abomination. I can't resist, however, noting this particularly asinine defense of the statute from the governor: "This.
Above: History's greatest monster oppressing Republicans by talking about climate change Al Gore of course, at least according to VERY SERIOUS presidential candidate Lindsey Graham.