Debates about the meaning of “terrorism” often feature some odd assumptions, including: (1) Killing 500 civilians while making some attempt to avoid killing them is less morally problematic than killing five civilians while attempting to kill many more. I suppose this may be true, but it hardly seems self-evident. (2) While blowing up a 19-year-old […]
Author: Paul Campos
Since my beloved Michigan Wolverines just suffered their first really bad season since the Johnson administration, I’ve discovered that what fans do in this situation is review highlights from g
I’ve been writing an opinion column for ten years, and something I’ve noticed about what that role does to you (meaning me) is that it more or less impels you to talk about stuff you don&#
A back of the envelope calculation indicates the New York Yankees are now committed to approximately $875 million in guaranteed salaries over the next several years. To wit (all numbers in millions): ARod: $250 St. Derek: $37 Rivera: $30 Posada: $40 Damon: $13 Matsui: $13 Cano: $22 Sabathia: $161 Burnett: $82 Tex: $180 The way […]
Barack Obama has always claimed his religious faith is one of the most important things in his life, and essential to his identity. It’s therefore all the more disappointing that his choice of R
The Madoff affair is interesting on a bunch of levels — psychologically, politically, and sociologically, among others. Something that ought to be looked into vigorously by the new administratio
This is the weirdest coaching switch I’ve ever seen: Auburn fires Tommy Tuberville, who prior to this year had gone 42-9 in the SEC over the previous four seasons, including a perfect record in 2004, and replaces him with Gene Chizik, whose entire head coaching record consists of going 5-19 at Iowa State over the […]
There are a bunch of ways to analyze this. One is to compare the most similar players to Sabathia at the same age. The most similar is Dave McNally, who at the same point in his career had 70 wins lef
As the U.S. economy melts down, as international tensions threaten to spiral out of control, as the sixth anniversary of the biggest foreign policy disaster in American history approaches, as the ques
It’s being reported that Notre Dame is going to bring back Charlie Weis for a fifth season, despite the fact the team racked up the most losses in any two-season stretch in the 109-year history of the program in Weis’s third and fourth years. Weis’s record is, by any reasonable measure, worse than that of […]
I guess this kind of thing is what makes the world go around on some level. And so the Black Friday lines begin. The streets of Boulder are fairly tame and the majority of store-fronts are dark on Tha
Sandy Levinson, a professor of law and political science, has been arguing for several years now that academics pay way too much attention, relatively speaking, to the rights provisions of the Constit