I know everyone is getting excited about the new season of Mad Men. The Onion's AV Club has a great article about 10 episodes that get to the depth of a character or theme. There's one paragraph to note particularly: Where other shows attack the...
Month: March 2013
[I'm re-posting this because I received an email about my earlier post inquiring as to whether "cartoons" are capable of tackling difficult social issues responsibly. I think this old post.
It was always pretty clear that Section 3 was doomed -- pretty much all of Kennedy's commitments point in the same direction -- and that's how the arguments played out..
A great photo gallery of the vanishing towns of Montana, where just a few people hold on in isolated places. Or sometimes they disappear from the map entirely. The American West is full of these places. Driving around the West, you see isolated homes in...
Along with some of the many bloggers on the masthead named "David," I will be conferencin' in Hollywood for the next couple days. Given my increasingly wonky laptop, blogging will.
My latest at the Diplomat takes a look at China's approach to naval aviation: Ranging from the Colossus class carriers distributed across the world at the end of World War II,.
Jonathan Rees on how MOOCs allow egocentric professors to drive others out of business while producing lower quality education and the corporate profits that drive the whole thing. In other words, while a few already well-paid superprofessors get their egos stroked conducting experiments that are...
It obviously won't get as much attention as yesterday's oral argument, but as I note at the Prospect there was a major Fourth Amendment ruling yesterday. The fact that it.
I don't have much to add to the consensus of Pierce, Denniston, Millhiser, Liptak and Serwer. On the merits, the case for upholding Prop 8 looked as stunningly weak as.
I had a couple of points I wanted to make in response to this. First, with respect to the narrow issue at hand, there's not a great deal to say because I don't think there's any engagement with my argument, and our disagreement is much...
I'm just a teacher of argument, not a lawyer, so I'm only going to address the merits of these arguments on their merits, not their legal standing. To begin: JUSTICE.
I am very happy to see that President Obama named five new national monuments yesterday. Two are dedicated to preserving public lands--the San Juan Islands in Washington and the Rio.