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 the force, and said he now faces arrest for speaking to the media. Ministry spokesman Brig. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, who had previously denied […]
Year: 2007
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, whe
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 of life and vastly improved health decades later, in old age. In fairness, if this is right, DJW will bury […]
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?
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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 the experiences of the teachers. Thinking back to it still gives me the willies; it involved a degree of physical and emotional insecurity […]
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
Shorter Treason-Wankee: “I have wasted a shitload of time.” I truly fail to understand Right Blogistan’s obsession with Jamil Hussein, but I suppose if it can be proven for certain t