Not all adjuncts at CUNY are being paid at subsistence level: David H. Petraeus will earn a $150,000 salary when he joins the City University of New York’s Macaulay Honors College this fall as a visiting professor of public policy, according to documents obtained by...
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Perhaps I'm missing something, but my impression is that we've seen a little less of the backlash argument in response to Windsor than usual. Even from the right, invocations of.
You know that ongoing decline in humanities enrollments that you're heard so much about that? Well, the World's Most Dangerous Postmodern Opponent of Truth, Beauty and Reason would like to.
As you would expect given the parties involved, Barry Friedman and Dahlia Lithwick's argument that with the progress towards SSM the agenda of the left is exhausted is smart and interesting reading. But I'm not sure I really buy the bottom-line argument: But did you...
John Kasich has signed an abominable bill into law: The new budget, which takes effect on Monday,.
I have my wrap-up on the end of term at the Supreme Court. In brief, 1)the Court had a larger impact than unusual, 2)this impact was mostly bad, and 3)bad.
Via Edroso -- whose roundup has plenty of great/depressing stuff as always -- John Yoo is exultant that the same federal government that has the power to torture people without due process no longer possesses the tyrannical authority to enforce the 15th Amendment: Do conservatives...
Linda Greenhouse's typically excellent year-end summary of the year in John Roberts concludes with this chilling reminder: If there is no mystery about the nature of the chief justice’s views,.
Showing that at least the homophobic reaction to Windsor and Perry won't be hysterical, Darleen Click would like to inform you that the above cover has destroyed the very concept.
I haven't commented yet on the fascinating Native American and parental rights case Erik mentions below in part because it's a genuinely difficult case and I have yet to reach any firm conclusions about it. But there is one thing I'd like to highlight. While...
Above: person too dumb to win nomination of party that ran George W. Bush twice. Shorter Verbatim Rick Perry: In fact, even the woman who filibustered the Senate the other.
Ilya Shapiro has a somewhat longer piece attempting to defend Shelby County v. Holder. Along with Roberts's majority opinion, it's as effective an argument against the outcome of the case.