Today's been a bit of a frustrating day. I'm trying to grade papers and midterms, but our online class maintenance system is up and down and extremely slow at best. I also have a labor event this evening where I've been invited to sell books as...
Here's a little but very telling example of someone living in a political isolation booth, not some random anti-anti-Trump shitposter but a New York Times editor (granting that there's substantial.
In the last few months I've encountered three very distinguished academics who experienced significant cognitive decline very close to their 80th birthdays. One involved a formal diagnosis of dementia, another.
PCC-53242 Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara. January 12 , 1961. DoD photo by Oscar Porter, U.S. Army. (Released) I wrote a bit more about the Future Soldier Preparatory Course, offering some contrast with programs from the past... Because the Future Soldier Preparatory Course involves a...
Does handing the world's biggest and most powerful social media platform to Trumpist propaganda mongers sound like a good idea? President Donald Trump’s friends are trying to take control of.
This is the grave of Mary McDowell. Born in 1854 in Cincinnati, McDowell grew up pretty wealthy. Her father was a prominent Republican, Civil War veteran, and mill owner who.
This is very normal. President Gustavo Petro of Colombia accused the United States of murdering an innocent fisherman in an attack on a boat American authorities claimed was carrying illicit drugs, prompting President Trump to declare on Sunday that he would slash assistance to Colombia, one...
Wherever a Republican is selling a 20-year extended warranty for a Sony Trinitron, Kathleen Parker will be there: And right on cue, the incomparable Kathleen Parker,[image or embed]— Bill Grueskin.
It was gray and kind of cool at the Eugene, Oregon, No Kings March yesterday. It was a big crowd. 2300 people had registered, and it must have been more.
There are many reasons why the Republican installation of Bill Belichick in Chapel Hill has been a disaster, all of which boil down to his having turned into an appropriately Trumpian self-parody. (If your argument is that Belichick was never a great coach, you're a boob,...
The world is changing: Now that's doing politics the right way. Meanwhile this happened at what is by far the most right wing of the service academies: A board of.
Photo by Pixabay: https://www.pexels.com/photo/ice-cubes-434259/ There's been a lot of recent discussion, including here, about the value of routine pro-democracy protests. They matter for a lot of reasons, but a lot.