There are some of us in the academy whose parents were not professors. But there's a whole whole lot whose parents were professors. Like, way more than you'd think, even if you expected it. This piece on how this reality can get in the way...
Author: Erik Loomis
Many of us are really excited about Deb Haaland at Interior. Having a Native woman there is just a huge shift in an agency that traditionally has been at the.
Nope: The video shows a 73-year-old woman, clutching wildflowers and her wallet, being thrown to the ground and handcuffed in Loveland, Colo., last year by police officers who suspected her.
I've written at length about how corporations have unmoored themselves from national law in the world of labor relations and environmental degradation, while those of us fighting this are left constrained by national law. What I haven't written about at all is the other side...
This is the grave of Lars Onsager. Born in Oslo, Norway in 1903, Onsager grew up well-off, the son of a prominent lawyer. He went to college at the Norwegian.
Nothing like remembering the good times of 1979, when the Iran hostage crisis went down. Here's an ABC news report six days into the crisis. https://www.youtube.com/embed/A8bC1DEYbI4 This is actually a.
If you haven't seen this story about Mary Ann Vecchio, the girl in the famous Kent State photo, it's really well worth your time.
Journalists unionizing may not be the working-class revolt that those who fantasize about the revolution desire. After all, they aren't working class in a traditional sense. But like graduate students.
Well, this is certainly an interesting argument from the historian of medicine Melanie Kiechle. Does the pandemic mean that we need to take 19th century theories of medicine seriously again?.
One thing about the left is that there's often a tendency to replace policy with slogan. This is OK; it's not really up to people making demands to work out all the details before they make them. That's part of protest politics and it needs...
This is the grave of Richard Rush. Born in 1780 in Philadelphia, Rush grew up in one of the elite families of the Early Republic. His father was Dr. Benjamin.
Dedicated to the late great Shock G. https://www.youtube.com/embed/msrq0HjwJUM I am also amused by this blog post noting that Michael Steele looks like Shock G.