Scott references Glenn Harlan Reynolds' column in which GHR cites Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers for the proposition that some sort of altruistic public service ought to be a prerequisite for the right to vote: Science fiction writer Robert Heinlein, in his famous novel Starship Troopers,...
Author: Paul Campos
Paul Krugman points out how arguments that claim not enough Americans have college degrees work as smokescreens to obscure the real drivers of social and economic inequality: [M]y sense is.
I noted yesterday that Washington & Lee University has announced a "strategic plan," intended to get the law school to stop costing it money sooner rather than later. After crunching.
From the university's web site: Beginning with the 2015-16 academic year, the school will enroll entering 1L classes of about 100 students, resulting in a full-time student body of about 300. For comparison's sake, the current law school student body is 374 and includes the...
Ah the charms of Twitter-level analysis: In what way were gifts to Clinton Foundation not a gigantic bribe to a serving Secretary of State & highly likely future president? ..
Wolfcastle: The film is just me in front of a brick wall for an hour and a half. It cost $80 million. Jay Sherman: How do you sleep at night?.
Now sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip. Well, not really. In the summer of 1995, Joel Seligman left his position on the University of Michigan law school faculty to become dean of the University of Arizona's law...
And as the smart ship grew In stature, grace, and hue, In shadowy silent distance grew the Iceberg too. As I predicted a year ago, Hamline's law school is merging.
. . . is, don't let yourself get bullshitted by a guy who comes right out and tells you he's a bullshitter. The second rule of journalism is, if you.
Wait, did I say in Central Park? I meant at the Aspen Institute: Bloomberg claimed that 95 percent of murders fall into a specific category: male, minority and between the ages of 15 and 25. Per the most recent FBI statistics, the actual percentage appears...
That's a question that university administrators have been asking themselves for many decades now. A couple of days ago, when asked to opine on the issue, Elena Kagan delicately suggested.
Note: All dollar figures in this post have been converted to constant 2014 dollars. Yesterday I wrote about Greg Crespi’s paper regarding the financing what he refers to as “Harvard-style”.