Bob Dylan turns 80 today. A few random notes about arguably the single most influential musician in American history: (1) I was fifteen when Blood on the Tracks was released. I have no recollection of why I bought it -- at that point in my life...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., center, speaks with committee members Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., right, and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April.
Institutions of higher education generally have requirements that students and often employees show proof of various vaccinations. Essentially nobody complains that such requirements are violations of medical privacy or any.
Very nice story at the NYT on the distribution and diffusion of technologies that have increased the average human lifespan. Steven Johnson interrogates the standard stories of vaccination, pasteurization, and antibiotics, highlighting the progenitors of the "miraculous acts of lone geniuses" and then showing how social,...
By Dmitriy Pichugin - http://www.airliners.net/photo/Belarus---Air/Mikoyan-Gurevich-MiG-29-(9-13)/2138951/L/, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=22900779 The government of Belarus basically hijacked a passenger liner in flight in order to force it down and arrest a dissident: The.
Daniel Ellsberg is drawing attention to a classified Pentagon study he published on his website abut plans drawn up under the Eisenhower administration to nuke China in the hope that.
On May 23, 1977, the Supreme Court issued a decision in Abood v. Detroit County Board of Education, upholding public sector unions collecting union dues from non-members for purposes of collective bargaining. This case, a late blow against anti-union forces before the 1980s attacks on unions...
If it's not the Crucifixion then it's the Holocaust: Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, during an interview on a conservative podcast this week, compared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to.
As any reader of these musical posts knows, I am a big fan of free jazz. And I am a big fan of Archie Shepp. He's still around and playing,.
Emily Wilder has issued a powerful statement about the Associated Press disgracefully delegating its personnel decisions to the Stanford Republicans and Tom Cotton: My statement on my termination from The Associated Press. pic.twitter.com/kf4NCkDJXx— emily wilder (@vv1lder) May 22, 2021 The detail that her editor wouldn't even...
President Donald Trump examines a fire truck from Wisconsin-based manufacturer Pierce on the South Lawn during a "Made in America" product showcase event at the White House in Washington, DC,.
This article was published just as the North Carolina Board of Trustees rejected Nikole Hannah-Jones' tenure for purely and nakedly political reasons. It's really important. Faculty once had meaningful power.