Updated below In his post about free speech on campus arguments, Scott mentions the tangential issue of exactly how much celebrity speakers at commencements and other university events are getting paid for casting their pearls before students, parents, alumni, etc. The University of Colorado holds what...
Michelle Goldberg makes a very smart point here: Are the protests against commencement speakers and honorary degree recipients an example of the anti-liberal left? I think there's a difference between.
From a historian's perspective, the most interesting thing about the arrest of Gerry Adams on murder charges is the central role of oral histories given under an understanding of confidentiality..
I've been looking at various demographic breakdowns of income in the USA. Here's an interesting one from the Census Bureau, based on household size (A household is everyone who lives in the same house or apartment unit, so household size is not exactly the same things...
By 1896, the beard trend of the Gilded Age was fading, especially among younger men. The Civil War vets would keep their grizzled old beards, but the Progressives would eschew.
Iowa Republicans conducted a study trying to show voter fraud, and found essentially no voter fraud of any kind and literally no fraud that would be prevented by Voter ID.
No investigation is too intrusive to insure that NCAA players aren't receiving voluntary payments from third parties: Former Oklahoma center Gabe Ikard signed as an undrafted free agent with the Titans this weekend, and it sounds like he's ready to get out of college. On a...
The Catholic Church is an institution really prepared to move into the future: The new pope, exorcists say, has become their champion in the face of modern skeptics, many of.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you America's most manly, heterosexual sport: I don't know anything about football but I do know Michael Sam's boyfriend is cute.— bspencer (@vacuumslayer) May 13,.
With due respect to Charles Pierce... There is no better mainstream reporter on this stuff than Charlie Savage, my old colleague at The Boston Globe who now writes for the Times. (Hell, there's no better reporter on any beat anywhere.) He's read Greenwald's book and, putting...
The NCAA, so concerned about its "student athletes" that they can be prevented form transferring to the school of their choice for no reason whatsoever: Leticia Romero came to Kansas.
MRC: Comedians “poison the minds of America's young people EACH AND EVERY DAY,” turning them "into “leftist zombies” pic.twitter.com/PdGZC3i7Hn — Eric Hananoki (@ehananoki) May 13, 2014 Hey, wingnuts, I've got.