As Michael Grunwald observes, Katrina was a man-made disaster, and there are likely to be more where that came from: In his speech today in New Orleans for the 10th anniversary.
What does Donald Trump actually want? That is the practical question posed by his increasingly bizarre, and increasingly successful, "campaign." Jon Chait gets the essence of Trump's appeal exactly right:.
Final figures for the 2014-15 application cycle are now available, and, as I predicted last December, the steep decline in applications to law school that began four years ago appears.
An outstanding polemic/manifesto from Kieran Healy on theorizing as a practice and its internal enemies. The general critiques and lessons here apply well beyond sociology: When faced with a problem.
I got bumped from a scheduled appearance on Australian Public Radio, but I will survive. Some readin': Peggy Noonan's Dominican taxi driver deli guy pretends to share her positive views.
Key & Peele is, like most sketch shows, hit and miss. This sketch, however, achieves brilliance. Or at least achieves making me laugh my ass off. .
Wait, that's not a real book. This, however, is a real op-ed, in which Team Cheney reveal the secrets to building an American foreign policy that both tastes great and.
Speaking of trigger warnings, a commenter on the previous thread makes what I think is a common mistake: 4. The fear (slippery-slope or not) is that trigger warnings will lead.
