Who could have guessed that a bunch of Occupy anarchists who don't trust government or institutions or systems of real accountability would prove a complete disaster with money? Oh right, me. Their Rolling Jubilee operation was supposed to buy off people's debt. They raised a...
Author: Erik Loomis
We need more major political leaders who did solidarity work in Nicaragua for the Sandinistas.
For your Saturday night, Louis Armstrong in Copenhagen, either 1933 or 1934 (sources use different dates). This has to be one of the first recordings of live music on film..
We know of the Red Scare. On campus, anticommunism during World War I and after World War II led to fired faculty and silenced opposition. Today we live in the Gun Scare. If professors speak out against the NRA, they are drummed out of their...
Andrew Delbanco has a largely excellent review of the new books by Diane Ravitch and Michelle Rhee in the latest New York Review of Books. Essentially, the two come across.
Do you ever wonder what your LGM writers do on Friday evenings, scouring the internet to entertain you? Well this, your daily World War II musical artifact, is pretty much.
Shorter Republican Party: “Religious Freedom=Christians Can Disregard Whatever Laws They Don’t Like”
The Republican platform of allowing Christians to disregard whatever laws they personally find disagreeable continues.
Not sure what the Koch Brothers are getting at in this anti-Obamacare ad portraying Uncle Sam as a rapist. Given that he seems be to using the same transvaginal ultrasounds.
César Díaz's essay on the difficulties of growing up in Brownsville and then going off to college from a poor family and then living in white Austin is your read.
Happy Gerald Ford Stuck in an Elevator at the University of Pennsylvania Day! Evidently, UPenn also has urinals sponsored by donors, so it has a number of things for me.
This new pope is surprising to say the least. If he's making the nutcase Bishop of Providence (who is a real piece of work) mad because he's not frothing at.