It is written. (Not in The Onion).
Author: Paul Campos
Over the past quarter century I've read a lot of SCOTUS opinions as a matter of professional obligation. The majority opinion in Shelby County v. Holder is the worst SCOTUS.
This morning's New York Times features Marty Lipton taking umbrage at the idea that anyone would raise questions about why NYU is lavishing seven-figure annual compensation packages on the Great.
GQ has an interesting feature story on David Chase and The Sopranos, which includes some vignettes about James Gandolfini. Per the story, Gandolfini struggled with the fame the show brought him, in ways that in retrospect seem unsurprising. On one occasion, the show's star simply...
Here's the price of a regular admission (not student) University of Michigan football ticket over time. (All figures are in 2012 dollars, rounded to the nearest dollar. I couldn't find.
This piece features more juicy tidbits on the 501(c)(3) racket known as New York University, but its real target is the Educational Administrative Complex more generally. It features a link.
A friend of mine is bothered by the absence of a standard English punctuation mark that captures something in the emotional spectrum between the matter of fact period and what one might call the "sincere exclamation point." Example of the latter: Thanks for pulling me...
Permafrost (perennially frozen) soils underlie much of the Arctic. Each summer, the top layers of these soils thaw. The thawed layer varies in depth from about 4 inches (10 centimeters).
I have a piece in Salon about how asking if James Clapper committed perjury when testifying about the extent of government surveillance is in one sense the wrong question.
I'm posting this for its sociological interest. The topic being addressed is how to get a summer associate position (SA) after your second year of law school, via on campus.
John Sexton's game is strong: According to documents unearthed in a month-long search of public records, NYU Law School has created an array of nonprofits to funnel money into lavish.