After seven years of living in the UK, two institutions that I admire (which never fails to invite derision from some quarters in Britain) are the BBC and the NHS. The former is funded by one of the most regressive taxes on the planet, one...
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I'm teaching two sections of my comics course in Fall 2010, and instead of relying on all the Batman or Alan Moore material, I decided to test-drive chapters from the.
With now multiple major oceanic oil spills occupying the world's attention, a few commentators and NGOs are trying to remind us of the various other ecological disasters that may be.
Now I see that Big Journalism is ablaze with this article in which The Daily Caller's Jonathan Strong reveals that the cosigners a letter published in The Nation in April of 2008 actually discussed the contents of that letter before they signed it. Moreover, Strong...
Every time I go off the grid for a few days the world I return to seems vastly dumber: Also, does anyone really believe that Andrew Breitbart would intentionally distort.
Something that I and other colleagues have noted at institutions similar to my current employer is that there seems to be an omnipresent implied, when not explicit, anti-intellectual current defining.
This article addresses what should be a puzzling question: Why did Barack Obama nominate Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court? Not only has Kagan never been a judge, but, far more problematically, she has over the course of a 25-year legal and political career taken...
Glenn Reynolds, breathlessly touting the latest in a series of pathetic no-there-there stories about JournoList at Tucker Carlson's web rag, buys the claim that "journalists called for Fox News to.
Two good-news stories in the area of compliance with humanitarian norms this week: First, the US military has revoked the deployment of the Active Denial System, a "less-than-lethal" weapon designed.
Although we often focus on what divides us, it's important to remember that the "we demand Swedish level of social services with Mississippi levels of taxation and we could get it if it wasn't for all of the waste, fraud and abuse at the state...
James Gammon, R.I.P. And since I forgot, allow me also to note the passing of Bob Probert.
Last month during the Greece/South Korea World Cup game, my eight-year-old son noticed the players speaking to one another in English, and asked me: “Mom, is English the official language.