Light posting from me will continue for a couple of days as my vacation wraps up; it has involved more success at acquiring hockey tickets than anticipated, with more predictable compelling friends away from family responsibilities and taking advantage of the big new kitchen. Tonight involved a dinner engagement, followed by some winning ugly, which […]
Month: January 2007
Sweet. BAGHDAD (AP) — The Interior Ministry acknowledged Thursday that an Iraqi police officer whose existence had been denied by the Iraqis and the U.S. military is in fact an active member of
Several months back, my friend Jonathan Sterne wrote an especially insightful post about social class and academia. One of the few American professors gifted enough to pass through Canada’s prot
The FBI files on the late Chief Justice contain some interesting information. For example, on his pooling booth goonery and his confirmation hearings with bonus John Bolton material: In July 1986, when President Ronald Reagan nominated Rehnquist to be chief justice, the Justice Department asked the FBI to interview witnesses who were preparing to testify […]
More school makes you live longer. Instead, Dr. Smith and others say, what may make the biggest difference is keeping young people in school. A few extra years of school is associated with extra years
I’m very late in wading into the Jim Crow/federalism debate, but a couple of points I haven’t seen anyone else make yet: Volokh is right that the “federalism permitted Jim Crow, and
Personal to Michael Ledeen: if you’re going to defend an appallingly executed execution using a movie, couldn’t you at least use a watchable one?
Wow, Notre Dame abjectly (and gloriously) humiliated in a bowl game it had no business being in–what are the odds?
Shorter W.:
Why is Women’s E-news publishing this crap? Many other posts on the subject; Shakes has a comprehensive roundup.
Good article about middle school/junior high in the New York Times. I’ve never taught 7th graders, but my general recollections of being a middle school student seem to accord pretty well with t
Via Ezra, I see that Paul Campos’ terrific article (which I’ve tried to link to before) has been taken out from behind the subscriber wall by TNR in time for New Year’s Resolution ti