My friend Jay Rubenstein has been promoting his new book about the first Crusade with a series of pieces at HuffPo. His latest asks whether the Crusades or early Jihad was more violent. Not surprisingly, the answer is the Crusades by a long shot: What...
Author: Erik Loomis
There's a debate among the legions of non-tenure track English and language faculty on whether to occupy the MLA this December in protest of their organization's disinterest in addressing the.
Classic Onion headline: Those We Lost In 2011 From left, North Korean supreme leader Kim Jong-il, Col. Muammar Qaddafi, Family Circus creator Bil Keane, al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden. I.
Robert Cruickshank has a really smart essay on the relationship between the Occupy movement and established progressive groups. This bit I think is the crux: Occupiers are openly advocating revolutionary change from the streets. But here is where I think the progressive movement’s love affair...
I've long thought that Democrats could open make a lot of political hay by centering veterans' benefits in their programs and rhetoric. During the Bush administration, I was consistently outraged.
As the pundit and blogging worlds mourn the loss of a blowhard amoral drunk and reaffirms how much the media loves to talk about itself, the world should really be.
One great end of the year tradition is the Salon Hack List. This year's winner----Mark Halperin! He must be so honored. Jennifer Rubin won the well-deserved silver and Bernard Henri-Levy the bronze. The BHL entry was particularly enjoyable: He’s prospered in intellectual circles despite his...
This image from Life Magazine disturbs me. I guess because it looks like the shot is set up like giving a dying solider a last drink of water. That it.
I have an active a research agenda as any untenured academic, but I also love teaching. So do most academics that I know. Part of loving teaching is placing value.
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IKEA is proposing to build an entire neighborhood in east London. It's hard to see what could go wrong with giving this kind of control to a company whose success.
I find the somewhat silly controversy of MSNBC insinuating that Mitt Romney stole the phrase "Keep America American" from the second Ku Klux Klan interesting for a few reasons. 1..