I heard the old, old men say, 'Everything alters, And one by one we drop away.' They had hands like claws, and their knees Were twisted like the old thorn-trees By the waters. 'All that's beautiful drifts away Like the waters.' Yeats, The Old Men...
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Law School Transparency is a classic example of the potential power of small-scale grass roots organizing. LST was founded five years ago by two Vanderbilt law students, who were concerned.
Environmentalism as an active political movement with the ability to create major change has declined to its weakest point in several decades, with the failure to pass the cap and.
Andrew Cuomo, fleeing scandal that is torpedoing his presidential ambitions (world's smallest violin playing) decides to visit Israel in a show of support of that nation's racist indiscriminate killing of civilians of Gaza as it seeks to double down on its apartheid policies. Jerks of...
It seems right that in the same week Kevin Williamson argued that as long as you ignore African-Americans American federalism has been awesome, he would also write something like this:.
Look, if you have mainstream Republicans looking to return the nation to the next Gilded Age, it only makes sense that really crazy right-wingers would be longing wistfully for the.
Have to give Yao Ming a lot of credit. He could have taken the Jordan/Kobe/(to a lesser extent) LeBron path of superstardom, but instead he has engaged in political causes. Going the Jabbar/Ali/Jim Brown route has no doubt made him enemies, but his work on...
I'm...confused more than anything. More here (including transcript).
R.I.P. ...RAF lists his favorite performances. I am compelled to note that despite being an academic I hate Dead Poet's Society, although not because of Williams's performance. I'll add praise.
Shorter Kevin Williamson: With notably rare exceptions, federalism and localism have been awesome for integration and equality under the law in American history.
Nice catch by Abbe Gluck: It is no secret that the people bringing the challenge to the Obamacare subsidies in the Halbig and King cases—challenges now seeking review from both.
Michael Hiltzik has useful commentary to add to the story of Nazi youth camps in mid-30s New York. The scare over them led to the creation of the Dies Committee,.