So I was in a bit of a Twitter argument last night with Rosemary Feal, Executive Director of the Modern Language Association (@rgfeal) over the issue of humanities Ph.D. students reaching fluency in non-English languages. The MLA is now advising that English Ph.D. programs require...
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As I wrote about at some length during the dark ages of the blog, I think the evidence that William Rehnquist's infamous memo urging Robert Jackson to uphold Plessy represented.
The battle of mediocrity must have a winner, and it is the noble Huskies! I hereby declare hoops the most important of the collegiate sports.
You could read idiotic anonymous trolls taking over comment threads on my previous posts or you could enrich yourself today by reading Andrew Hartman's very interesting essay asking a question much of historians' minds in recent years--were the 1960s radical? I don't have overly strong...
Say it, Justice Ginsburg. Much more on this travesty imminently. The short version is that Supreme Court has joined the War on Women by combining a "federalist" doctrine that is.
Since this failure to bring Congress aboard involves Obama trying to achieve abysmally and unnecessarily conservative ends, I'm pretty sure that this time I'm not going to get much of.
Fortunately, it seems now that there will at a minimum be a serious investigation into the killing of Trayvon Martin. Should Zimmerman not be prosecuted (assuming no additional facts exonerating him emerge), however, I argue that it's not as simple as saying that the Florida...
If I dare suggest that the shockingly warm temperatures in the eastern half of the country, temperatures that by a gigantic margin make up the biggest March heat wave in.
Jake Blumgart with an excellent discussion of why labor rights should be considered civil rights: It is for these reasons that Kahlenberg and Marvit argue that Title VII of the.
The European Tourist: "No-smoking areas? It's incredible!" said Michael Kuntze, a 59-year-old German day care manager who was savoring a long cigar and sipping rum and cola in the Hotel Conde de Villanueva, home to one of the city's most popular cigar rooms. Kuntze and...
The culmination of nearly a decade's worth of research, Dale Carpenter's Flagrant Conduct tells the story of Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark 2003 case holding that bans on "sodomy" violated.
Some of the signals being sent by Paul and his fellow truthtellers might be getting through to at least some potential 0Ls, as well as the media: Legal diplomas are.