I have 5 spots open in a 20 team MLB fantasy baseball league at ESPN. Among the LGM luminaries you can play against are Dr. Robert Farley, Dr. David Noon and Dr. DJW. And me. Note as well that you can also witness an episode...
Author: Erik Loomis
This seems appropriate for a Saturday afternoon: Unfortunately, I am spending the day working on a book chapter, but I can still dream.
Last year, faculty at the University of Illinois-Chicago formed a union that combined both tenure-track and adjunct faculty in the same bargaining unit. Seeing a threat to its exploitation of.
I've expressed my reservations before about the idea of a memorial for Dwight Eisenhower on the National Mall and scoffed at the protests by his granddaughters that part of the Gehry-designed memorial would dare to depict the great man as an average boy growing up...
Charlie Pierce is right-on, as usual: My track record on this guy is pretty clear — and, occasionally, the topic of some hilarity around the home office. This is what.
I feel like this Alessandra Stanley preview of the upcoming first episode of Season 5 of Mad Men is a predictable as a Pitchfork review of a band's 4th album.
Who knew that gluttony on the scale of 18th century royalty would lead to major health problems?
Since last week I dared suggest that there could be problems with white people running around the world saving brown people from themselves and was thereby proven to be objectively.
Doesn't this just make you feel bad for poor Bill Kristol? Looking back at the day's news, I must admit I'm having trouble maintaining my customary good cheer. Watching Mitt.
I have a piece up at Alternet on restaurant labor, examining the exploitative nature of the $2.13 an hour tipped minimum wageand exploring some possibilities to even the playing field. An excerpt: Workers themselves are also fighting for their rights. Restaurants Opportunity Centers United is...
So I was in a bit of a Twitter argument last night with Rosemary Feal, Executive Director of the Modern Language Association (@rgfeal) over the issue of humanities Ph.D. students.
You could read idiotic anonymous trolls taking over comment threads on my previous posts or you could enrich yourself today by reading Andrew Hartman's very interesting essay asking a question.