As I've said before, the recycling business can be pretty nasty. We say something is "recycled," which really means "I think I did something good and now I don't have to pay attention to my role in the consumer chain." But the reality is that...
Author: Erik Loomis
Um, no. Showgirls, as certain critical circles have begun to embrace, is not “so bad it’s good.” Showgirls is good, or perhaps great, full stop. But one of the more.
There haven't been enough forestry posts here lately and since it's been determined that my interest in extremely obscure things that no one else in the world cares about is.
Like every day, the Republicans are moving forward in their plans to stay relevant in the 21st century. We have Phyllis Schlafly calling for a return to openly white supremacist politics. Erick Erickson is saying that female breadwinners are defying nature. Tea Partiers are making...
It seems there's a general decline in the liberal media since the election, both at MSNBC and on liberal blogs. On the other hand, LGM readership is up slightly since.
Well, this is disturbing to anyone who cares about the future of higher education: On Wednesday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan said the online courses could increase access and keep costs.
Here is more evidence that illegal marijuana plantations on national forest land leads to significant problems to wildlife: In the West Coast marijuana-growing region known as the Emerald Triangle, scientists want to know whether the rat poison spread around illegal pot plantations is killing northern...
Daniel Gross' discussion of IWW Local 8, the iteration of the Wobblies on the Philadelphia docks during the 1910s is interesting, but it's a lot more problematic as a lesson.
1950's "How to Lose What We Have" is first-rate capitalist propaganda precisely because it lacks anything even remotely approaching subtlety, unless you count its conflation of the New Deal with.
Leon Wieseltier asks the right question in his graduation speech at Brandeis: "Has there ever been a moment in American life when the humanities were cherished less, and has there ever been a moment in American life when the humanities were needed more?" Unfortunately, his...
I found Alec MacGillis' discussion of the new gun politics quite interesting. I'm not sure that we are seeing the death of the NRA here, but there's no question that.
As we close another Decoration Day, we have David Blight with typically excellent stories about Civil War memory: But for the earliest and most remarkable Memorial Day, we must return.