This action by my parents' alma mater was remarkable, and not in a good way: A University of Saskatchewan dean who spoke out about the university’s efforts to muzzle senior administrators has been fired, stripped of his tenure, had his retirement benefits revoked and was escorted...
Erik speculated that I would have more on Liptak's story on free Speech and the Supreme Court. It turns out that he was right! Read the whole etc., but to.
Not only should Michael Boggs be rejected by the Senate, but the blue slip needs to go. Fortunately, at least on the first question, Harry Reid seems to be thinking.
So I am teaching a short 4-week summer session course on Cold War Film. It only meets 10 times (4-hour sessions) so while the official course title is Recent America through Film, I'm concentrating on the Cold War since it's not really possible to do a...
My usual response over turmoil at major media outlets is to make fun of the media spending a day on its favorite theme: talking about itself. And I really don't.
I missed last night's Game 7 because I had Springsteen tickets. (Really good show, despite setlist issues; maybe I'll do a separate post on that.) I had it recorded, but.
A reminder guy who has never met a problem that guns and bombs couldn't solve was a major party's candidate for president. It's also a useful reminder that "international law means whatever my vague moral intuitions think it must mean" isn't a bad argument confined to...
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.
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. The interviews were stored as Boston College as part of the Belfast Project but the British...
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.
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.