My close-reading instincts typically compel me to focus on scenes more than structure, and that's not necessarily a good thing. So let's talk about structure from the point of view of someone who went to film school before the advent of DVDs and Netflix, by which...
A broadcast of "This I Believe," by Ralph Nafziger, founder of Hostess, in the 1950s: The most important thing to for me to remember is that what I want is.
Motivated in part by how blithely some commenters in this thread seemed to accept the various pretexts used to eliminate any expectation of privacy from private electronic communications ("Of course.
Obviously, Jeffrey Loria is one of the biggest assholes in the known universe (a population in which professional sports owners are disproportionately represented. And a focus on MLB doesn't even get us to, to choose a pertinent example, Gary Bettman and company, but we'll get to...
The Labor and Working-Class History Association has started a new blog called Labor Online. I was asked to be a contributing editor. Here's my first post, on the United Mine.
On this week's episode of Foreign Entanglements, Matt and James Joyner talk about the conservative foreign policy landscape:
The number of excellent links out there I want to talk about is overwhelming me. So I am linking instead. If you haven't heard Lee Atwater fully articulating the Southern Strategy, here he is in a newly uncovered full interview. Gross times. America's most diverse zip...
As a Tigers fan, I'm happy for Miguel Cabrera, but I've also been a card-carrying baseball stats geek since Bill James' Abstract went national in 1983, and this is ridiculous..
SEK and his class are brainstorming ideas for their end-of-quarter rhetoric-in-practice project. SEK: Given the fact that we studied Fellowship of the Ring and Game of Thrones, I could easily.
Charlie Webster, Chair of the Maine Republican Party: In some parts of rural Maine, there were dozens, dozens of black people who came in and voted on Election Day. Everybody has a right to vote, but nobody in town knows anyone who’s black. How did that...
Greenwald recently cited this post by Jack Goldsmith, claiming that the latter has shown that "an Obama presidency will strengthen these policies far more than a Romney presidency could have.".
Jane McAlevey excerpts from her new book of her decade as an organizer struggling against both corporations doing terrible things and the strategies of the labor leaders themselves. McAlevey talks.