I suspect that in retrospect 2011 will be remembered as the year the law school bubble finally began to burst. It began with David Segal's first big piece in the New York Times on the lengths law schools were going to in their attempts to hide...
A new meme is born?
I'm ambivalent about The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. But you have to admit that it was inspired for Fincher to make the first villain a dead ringer for Mark.
On December 30, 1905, former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg walked home after a snowstorm in Caldwell, Idaho. When he arrived he pulled open his outside gate, triggering a bomb that blew him ten feet into the air and killing him. The assassination of Steunenberg led to...
I love historical menus. The New York Public Library has a fantastic selection up, asking for people to check the transcriptions. This might mean there are some check marks over.
Thus is the title of Elizabeth Kolbert's excoriation of the Obama Administration for fighting European attempts to regulate airline emissions. Rather than support European leadership on the issue, the Obama.
or so desires Robert Reich. I have several quibbles with this, from an empirical perspective. First, the strong implication is that Obama-Clinton would gain more votes than Obama-Biden, or specifically, "Because Obama needs to stir the passions and enthusiasms of a Democratic base that's been disillusioned...
This post, in which Andrew Cohen attempts to make a libertarian case for requiring licences to raise children, is apparently not meant as a parody. This argument pairs nicely, I.
LGM's Top Ten posts from 2011: 1 Living a Lie Campos 2 Mystery of Cowardice Campos 3 What is Violent Rhetoric? Kaufman 4 The Many Lies of Joe Paterno Campos.
The blog over at the LSE, British Politics and Policy at LSE, has an interesting post on the relationship between teacher pay and educational attainment outcomes. A fuller summary of the academic article is here, the article itself here. Both summaries are rather superficial; the meat of...
Finishing a book manuscript, and so haven't had much time for serious blogging recently. Nevertheless, would like to drag everyone's attention to Dmitry Gorenburg's excellent series on Russia's military relationship.
Erm... awkward... Five thousand Irish soldiers who swapped uniforms to fight for the British against Hitler went on to suffer years of persecution. One of them, 92-year-old Phil Farrington, took part.