Ichininosan has compiled a list of the law schools that have slashed their admissions standards most drastically over the past four years, as measured by average LSAT. I'm reproducing his work here, and adding 2004 data for comparison purposes (Note that good LSAT scores are far...
In case you weren't paying attention... Amid fears of a Kremlin-backed separatist rebellion here against Ukraine’s fledgling government, armed men in military uniforms took up positions at two Crimean airports.
Been too busy to really post today, but I can at least say this. You should be listening to Wussy. Also:
My latest at the Diplomat dabbles in some constructivism: As Susan Sell has argued, international IP protection is, in and of itself, a power play on the part of major economic actors. The construction and maintenance of the rule systems owes itself to the entrepreneurial behavior of...
It seems that the latest strategy to defend Arizona's recently deceased anti-civil rights bill is to assert that it's really nothing, essentially a reiteration of rights that already exist. Via.
The University of Tulsa's law school has just announced that it is effectively cutting tuition by 54% for the incoming first year class, from $33,428 to $15,428. The cut is.
I have a piece in TNR on the new JAMA study finding no statistical change in obesity rates over the past decade in either adults or children. (The finding that got the most headlines was a 40% drop in "childhood obesity" among 2-5 year olds, but...
I didn't expect to agree with the bottom line, but having seen several smart people recommend the new Harper's piece by the genuinely brilliant Adolph Reed Jr....I was expecting it.
As soon as Jeff Toobin's argument about Clarence Thomas people on various social media anticipated my response, and I can't disappoint.
The Kindle version of Grounded is now available. If I were you I'd wait until March 11, when you can take advantage of the UPK e-book loyalty program to get both the physical and the electronic copies, but to each his or her own...
2010 broke new ground in Confederate nostalgia arguments--defining Denmark Vesey as a terrorist. Global War on Terror indeed. But there's now a Vesey statue up in Charleston, honoring the man.
With Jan Brewer deciding she'd rather piss off the Tea Party than the Chamber of Commerce, the current wave of efforts to re-instate Jim Crow remains victory-free. Here in Ohio,.