Oh for the love of god: Both took time to comment on a major donor's e-mail in which he suggested that university leaders study the way Stanford and Harvard Universities, among others, were having success online. The donor wondered in his e-mail if these developments are...
The National Review finds an appropriate replacement for the Derb.
Tonight's entry in our tour of odd historical boxing videos continues with the glorious theme of cat boxing, this time from a bizarre short put out by General Motors in.
Last week a Boston law firm got a lot of publicity when it advertised an associate position with a $10,000 salary. A lot of people emailed me about it, which indicates the word hasn't gotten around that lots of legal jobs these days pay approximately $10,000...
Robert Samuelson. As always with Samuelson, what's most impressive is the sheer laziness. Even though he's willing to just make stuff up, he can't come up with 5 reasons to.
Contemporary literary theory, particularly of the postmodern or deconstructionist variety, has long had something of a reputation for being overburdened with inane, incomprehensible, and vacuous jargon. This reputation is not.
We may not have gotten a ruling in the "fleeting expletives" case yesterday. But in the meantime, at least Dahlia Lithwick has a plan to rid us of the most obscene expletive of all: Last week, a Michigan state legislator was barred from speaking on the...
In honor of Information Dissemination's fifth birthday, Galrahn has put together a fantastic set of guest posters for the month of June. Some highlights: Admiral James Stavridis on innovation and.
More Gilded Age pugilism--except tonight it is boxing cats! The past is a strange place.
Bill Keller tries to show off some book larnin', with results that are predictably unpretty: Donohue’s response bypassed her arguments and focused on the fact that she sometimes cites Michel Foucault, the creepy French philosopher known as an acolyte of the Marquis de Sade and a...
Philip Bump has a nice run-down of the important things to look for in the upcoming farm bill/massive subsidization of agribusiness thanks to the incredible power held by rural state.
Roger Clemens not guilty on all counts. While normally I root against Clemens, as I've said in the case of steroid witch hunts I'll make an exception. If only Clemens.