If you haven't seen David Brooks' syllabus for the class he's teaching at Yale this semester, entitled "The Humility Course," well, you are in for a treat. Here's a few choice sessions: Week 1: The Reticence Code (January 15) How did American leaders in the...
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Much credit to Seattle teachers at Garfield and Ballard High Schools for refusing to give a flawed standardized test to their students. Laura Clawson: The MAP appears to be a.
You thought McArdle was as low as The Atlantic could go? Oh no. Not even close. How about allowing Scientology to write a "Sponsor Content" that looks just like a.
Benjy Sarlin with a nice overview of how organized labor has shifted from a key anti-immigration force to one supporting immigration with great fervor. To be sure, there are a lot of individual unions, particularly in the building trades, that are not pro-immigration. But those...
The Sphinx has spoken: Justice Clarence Thomas broke his nearly seven-year silence at Supreme Court oral arguments Monday. But no one is sure exactly what he said. Thomas seemed to.
Following up on yesterday's Boston Globe story regarding the situation at New England School of Law, here are some hard figures regarding exactly how this confidence scheme institution of higher.
I have a piece up at the Prospect about the Brennan nomination: I do not mean to suggest that the nomination of Brennan means that there are no differences between the Bush and Obama administration on civil liberties. Obama did ban torture and extraordinary rendition...
I thought this Post article on Michelle Rhee was going to be a total puff piece, but it at least presents some facts that show her claims are never backed.
Elias Isquith (and some commenters here) is skeptical that Jack Lew's anti-graduate student union history matters for his nomination for Secretary of Treasury. He bases it on two points. One,.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden does typically invaluable work by noting the public officials responsible for the abusive prosecution of Aaron Swartz: U.S. Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz Special Agent in Charge Steven D. Ricciardi Assistant U.S. Attorney Stephen P. Heymann Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott L. Garland Cambridge...
LITTLE KID comes to SEK's door to retrieve the basketball he launched onto SEK's porch. LITTLE KID: Hi. My basketball landed on your—WOW. You have so many books! SEK: I.
In the wildcard thread, in the course of explaining why you can't build a winning NFL team around a running game, I reiterated in passing that the Browns were idiots.