The great free jazz drummer has passed. Here's a clip of him in possibly my favorite jazz band of all-time, Last Exit, with Peter Brotzmann, Bill Laswell, and Sonny Sharrock. This clip really features Jackson's work. I know after watching that, everyone is ready for a...
Last week I had a seven day early morning run on BBC Radio Devon. It turns out that the Monday through Friday spots are archived (but not the weekend spots).
Word limits necessitate a division of labor among writers. Jill Filipovic explains why U.S. v. Morrison was an outrage on commerce clause grounds. I argue that Morrison was also outrageous.
My latest at the Diplomat tries to explain the Republic of Korea Navy: Last week, Kyle Mizokami argued that the Republic of Korea Navy is “Impressive … and Pointless.” Mizokami makes the nutshell case against South Korea’s shift to the sea: "In the country’s rush to embrace its destiny...
Alex Tabarrok's piece at Marginal Revolution about the bad economics of layaway makes sense on one level. It got all the appropriate and expected twitter hits this morning (Yglesias, Klein,.
I have a new Internet Film School column up at the AV Club, and as the title clearly indicates, it's Halloween-themed.
Among its other successful disenfranchisements, the new Texas vote suppression law works as a poll tax on women who left their IDs in their maiden names.
The straight man: When the history of this period in American life comes to be written, historians will almost certainly come to see the hysteria prompted by the rise of.
In what is extremely rare medieval history blogging, this list of unfortunately nicknamed medieval kings is pretty great. Below we have Alfonso the Slobberer And here's Henry the Impotent
Another recent old post rediscovered makes me realize why Franklin Pierce went in hard and came out soft. Turns out he ranks pretty high in the presidential sexiness polls.
There's lots to pick apart here, but I really want to address the whole "studies show women are unhappy not fulfilling their womanly duties of popping out babies and sucking.
Needless to say, being disastrously wrong about pretty much everything hasn't resulted in him being discredited -- he'll still be widely treated as a great sage while the human toll.