Vesla Weaver and Amy Lerman have published a study in the American Political Science Review on the relationship between contact with the US criminal justice system and disaffection from US.
Sara Mead and Tom Scocca make a lot of good points about Amy Chua's dislikable, widely-discussed piece on "Chinese mothers." Aside from the stereotyping and assertions-without-evidence, what strikes me most.
A mere PAC-10 partisan, I must leave it to Farley to deliver the true post-mortem, but I empathize especially because that's exactly how a team I rooted for would have.
As someone who teaches rhetoric, I can only say that I've been profoundly disappointed in the quality of the conversation about the assassination attempt on Gabrielle Giffords. Despite all the.
John Sides at the Monkey Cage weighs in with some social science on the relationship between militant metaphors in political speech and individuals' willingness to engage in actual political violence.
Jack Shafer's column about speech in the wake of the attempted assassination of Gabrielle Giffords conflates several different claims into a broad argument about free speech. Some of these claims.
Sweet. 05-06 aside, was the Lynch stiff-arm -- perhaps I should say flea-swat -- of Porter the greatest moment in Seahawk history? I'd have to think so.
Gabrielle Giffords. Update: Sarah Palin and gun fetishism. We can only imagine what would happen if the shooter turned out to be a young Muslim. Since he appears to be.
