On Wednesday Steven Solomon, a law professor, published a column in the NYT on why, despite the claims of certain hysterical alarmists, things really are actually pretty good these days.
A cool new visualization of the Atlantic slave trade. Could be interesting/useful to many of you. I'll probably use it for my U.S. history survey course in the fall.
From my twitter feed, it seems that all of the people who should be hating the Iran deal are hating it, and all of the people who are actually interested.
A framework for an Iran deal was announced. To save time, the conservative reaction will be that Iran is the Hitler-of-the-week and Obama is Chamberlain.
Some musings inspired by the Indiana backlash and the backlash to the backlash: Some “meta” preliminaries: obviously, freedom of religion at its core is a non-negotiable requirement for any society.
So my soon-to-be-former Raw Story cohort Arturo Garcia and I decided we had things to say about the sixth season of Community, and what better place to say them then in a podcast?*.
I believe there are some LGM writers in Las Vegas right now. I hope they are listening to Tom Landry's sage wisdom.
So the clever "let's pick Arizona, because everyone is gonna pick Kentucky" strategy, which two high profile LGM bloggers adopted, didn't work out. Here's the state of things: Kentucky.
