I'm a super-classy lady. How do I know this? I wear a monocle and ascot at all times. That's right, in addition to the bunny ears. I'm blindingly classy. Looking at me is like looking directly at a super-classy sun. Being super-classy, I don't care much...
Or, actually, not: The nation’s 9-year-olds and 13-year-olds are posting better scores in math and reading tests than their counterparts did 40 years ago, and the achievement gap between white.
Two additional Gettysburg bits. First, on this week's Foreign Entanglements I talk with Kevin Levin of Civil War Memory about Gettysburg and historical memory: Second, my contribution to the Diplomat.
Since I had the game on while finishing up some work and it was at least meaningful to the Diamondbacks, I thought I should let you know about Kirk Gibson's astounding inning with a one-run lead and a runner on second with one out in the...
I have a rather strong objection to the term "pay it forward" that is based entirely upon Kevin Spacey sabotaging his own career by starring in New Agey vehicle after.
The labor historian Dana Frank has a wonderful if disturbing essay on learning Spanish through experiencing and then fighting against the Honduran coup that took place in 2009. Frank is.
Not all adjuncts at CUNY are being paid at subsistence level: David H. Petraeus will earn a $150,000 salary when he joins the City University of New York’s Macaulay Honors College this fall as a visiting professor of public policy, according to documents obtained by the...
Perhaps I'm missing something, but my impression is that we've seen a little less of the backlash argument in response to Windsor than usual. Even from the right, invocations of.
I was interviewed for this Jake Blumgart article at Alternet on attempts by United Students Against Sweatshops and others in the U.S. to hold apparel corporations accountable for the terrible.
On July 2, 1822, Denmark Vesey, a free African-American living in Charleston, South Carolina, was executed for his role in leading a purported slave rebellion. This event marked a significant increase in southern surveillance and oppression of free blacks and demonstrates the very real fear the...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ranks among the worst shows on television. Not because of the acting -- though the fact that Richard Belzer's been going through John Munch's.
You know that ongoing decline in humanities enrollments that you're heard so much about that? Well, the World's Most Dangerous Postmodern Opponent of Truth, Beauty and Reason would like to.