Erik speculated that I would have more on Liptak's story on free Speech and the Supreme Court. It turns out that he was right! Read the whole etc., but to summarize: As I've said before, to reduce Supreme Court decision-making to nothing but politics is an...
Not only should Michael Boggs be rejected by the Senate, but the blue slip needs to go. Fortunately, at least on the first question, Harry Reid seems to be thinking.
So I am teaching a short 4-week summer session course on Cold War Film. It only meets 10 times (4-hour sessions) so while the official course title is Recent America.
My usual response over turmoil at major media outlets is to make fun of the media spending a day on its favorite theme: talking about itself. And I really don't care about rich people losing their jobs. But this is quite notable and significant so I...
I missed last night's Game 7 because I had Springsteen tickets. (Really good show, despite setlist issues; maybe I'll do a separate post on that.) I had it recorded, but.
A reminder guy who has never met a problem that guns and bombs couldn't solve was a major party's candidate for president. It's also a useful reminder that "international law.
Updated below In his post about free speech on campus arguments, Scott mentions the tangential issue of exactly how much celebrity speakers at commencements and other university events are getting paid for casting their pearls before students, parents, alumni, etc. The University of Colorado holds what...
Michelle Goldberg makes a very smart point here: Are the protests against commencement speakers and honorary degree recipients an example of the anti-liberal left? I think there's a difference between.
From a historian's perspective, the most interesting thing about the arrest of Gerry Adams on murder charges is the central role of oral histories given under an understanding of confidentiality..
I've been looking at various demographic breakdowns of income in the USA. Here's an interesting one from the Census Bureau, based on household size (A household is everyone who lives in the same house or apartment unit, so household size is not exactly the same things...
By 1896, the beard trend of the Gilded Age was fading, especially among younger men. The Civil War vets would keep their grizzled old beards, but the Progressives would eschew.
Iowa Republicans conducted a study trying to show voter fraud, and found essentially no voter fraud of any kind and literally no fraud that would be prevented by Voter ID.