[caption id="attachment_73000" align="alignleft" width="217"] Princess Elizabeth on board HMS Vanguard, 1947[/caption] Congratulations to Queen Elizabeth II on passing Victoria as the longest-reigning British monarch.
I alluded to this earlier, but the new hire to be president of the University of Iowa is amazing: On the résumé Harreld submitted to the regents, he listed his.
You know that willfully misinterpreted Pauline Kael quote about Nixon voters that's routinely trotted out by cliche artists? Now imagine it played straight, and from the right: Virtually every American.
William Deresciwicz, author of Excellent Sheep, has a provocative and fascinating essay in Harper's on the baleful effects of transforming education, and American undergraduate education in particular, into yet another.
Your post-Labor Day Tuesday morning chuckles are courtesy of The Onion.
This is very true: Over the past two decades, that scenario has led to a wave of laws around the country restricting where people convicted of sex offenses may live.
Something that is much less likely to happen in Texas: Italy’s top criminal court on Monday said the murder case of Amanda Knox had “stunning flaws” — and that prosecutors.
Rather than blog a bunch about Labor Day I took to Twitter, where I wrote a Twitter essay and a bunch of follow up stuff about my views on the.
- Eastman and Down: the permanent disbarment episode
- The Ballad of Buckley’s Blowhard
- The future Republicans want is Anthony Comstock’s boots on the heads of American women, forever
- Joe Lieberman is dead
- Never give a sucker an even break
- Are You Paranoid Enough?
- Are the Kids Alright?
- Never again is what you swore the time before
- Three versions of Donald
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,587