Month: September 2015
Any international treaty is going to consist of tradeoffs and choosing priorities. This is what foreign policy is made of. For the Obama administration, when its free trade agenda comes into conflict
When I saw the New York Times had an article on a mud volcano in Indonesia, I immediately opened it. I’ve been to Indonesia in 1997 and thought it was great (I have a dream of getting a Fulbrigh
It’s rare that a political text makes me angry, because I know they are largely meaningless. But when Donald Trump released his position paper on the Second Amendment, the phrasing, even more th
I can’t say much for the design of the t-shirts, but I love how former University of North Carolina quarterback Caleb Pressley is trolling NCAA president Mark Emmert on the amateurism issue. He&
Because y’all seemed to want to riff on it, I thought it deserved its own post, and also it’s Friday. Half of these aren’t rules, which is troubling. But what’s more troublin
Resigning not only the Speaker position but his seat in Congress. Wow. Whoever takes over as Speaker is likely to be even more nuts. Presumably this will be someone who actually has the power to steer
ACA trooferism never dies, it just takes different forms. The President-to-adjunct ratio. Another victim of CTE. The trials of Ed Graff. Against equality of opportunity.
A few thoughts inspired, believe it or not, by the Hamilton Broadway musical… In 1793, the Qianlong Emperor penned (or ordered composed) a now legendary letter to King George III, in which he at
- Well don’t trust your soul to no backwoods southern lawyer
- LGM Film Club, Part 73: You Are On Indian Land
- George Atiyeh
- E Pluribus Something
- Donald Trump with a law degree
- Trump’s COVID catastrophe
- Big 10 Conference: Nothing is more important to us than the welfare of our serfs
- This Day in Labor History: September 16, 2004
- The man who wanted to be on TV
- Apart from that Mrs. Lincoln