Plagiarism? What about Rick Rolling??? Sure, Melania did not follow up with "he will never run around or desert you," but if the allusion to Rick Astley’s classic "Never Gonna Give You Up" was accidental, that’s one hell of a coincidence. The most symptomatic feature...
Author: Paul Campos
Those of us on the wrong side of that number might recall him as the star of the Happy Days spinoff, Joanie Loves Chachi, although I confess I never saw.
Apparently if you're Muslim, that's now enough evidence for even the staid and cautious New York Times: The toll of a terrorist attack on a Bastille Day fireworks celebration in.
Updated below You may remember University of Chicago law professor Todd Henderson from such classic essays as "Why it's really hard for an upper middle class family to scrape by on $400,000 per year in Hyde Park [Spoiler: Thanks Obama!]." Now Henderson is explaining why...
. . . then maybe you don't quite understand the nature of the situation: Hillary Clinton has emerged from the F.B.I. investigation into her email practices as secretary of state.
Andrew Gelman and David Rothschild have a really interesting piece on some paradoxes that may be arising in the workings of political prediction markets: Prediction markets took a lot of.
We have a lot of crazy men (it's always a man). We have lot of guns (it's always a gun). Violence can be more or less political, and the concept of mental illness is itself a subject of moral, scientific, and political dispute (Thomas Szasz:...
My column speculating on possible reasons why Bill Clinton chose to board Loretta Lynch's plane for a half hour private chat with the AG last week, despite the horrendous optics.
Three theories. Theory #1: The subtle pressure gambit On this account, Bill Clinton was trying to bring subtle psychological pressure on Lynch, apparently through the sheer force of his personality..
Thanks to commenter Howard for sending along a couple of interesting stories regarding what's happening in the US economy to workers with different educational credentials. This WSJ article looks at the long-term decline in the labor force participation rate among prime working-age men (the LFPR...
This would of course be very close to a best-case scenario, and indeed would indicate that Trump is either completely delusional or doesn't want to win or maybe both. The.
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a piece ($$) on the not-good financial state of American law schools these days: The growing number of universities that are subsidizing struggling law.