Matt and Ezra cite this wonderful Rick Perlstein post, with Ezra adding the following:Remember here that the Soviet Union wasn't just a mean country. It was the epicenter of an expansionistic ideology that believed its historical triumph to be pre-assured. It was as religious as any...
I've been remiss in not writing about the Jena 6. There are excuses but I am not offering them. Just going to jump right in. Reed Walters, the District Attorney.
The man is unbelievable. Now if they can get him home from second......Ack. Damn false hope.
Mr Shandy asks an important question: now that The Left is no longer blogging, can its presence in the blogospehere ever be regained? Alas, until Ward Churchill starts blogging, I'm not sure that there can be a true representative...
It's a busy teaching day, but I thought I'd let everyone know that I just dropped by the cafeteria for a quick bite, and no one was screaming "Motherfucker, I.
Chris Bertram at CT is asking for suggestions regarding a constant and difficult problem for those of us who teach undergraduates for a living. There's obviously no one silver bullet.
I'm not really sure I understand the distinction that Matt is trying to draw here. As always when questions of motivations rather than actions come up, I think we have to return to George Wallace. Even politicians who make overtly racist appeals may be much more...
Yesterday, Adam Liptak's (now free!) column in the NYT addressed the question of photo identification and voting -- specifically, whether it's right (constitutionally, pragmatically, morally) to require voters to show.
Elementary chaos theory predicts that robots will inevitably rise against their masters. So why this?Here's the UXV Combatant, a new class of warship being developed by BAE Systems to fight.
If anything is clear about the politics of aboriton, it's that criminalization does relatively little to protect fetal life but a great deal to endanger the health of women. Jill points us (among other examples) to Uganda, where "as many as 1200 Ugandan women die every...
Beauty pageant -- or, as their organizers would prefer to call them. "scholarship pageant" winners -- ripped off and denied their scholarship money.
For all of my adult life I have been plagued by the question of pant-size availability. Is it hard to find 38x32 pants because the size is extremely common, or.