One of the most striking things about my recently departed friend Henry was her lack of basic cat skills. At no point in her eight odd years that I can recall did she ever intentionally scratch or bite a human being. She's no pacifist, as she...
Yglesias [lighlty edited]:The article comes to me via Martin Peretz, whose status as a cosignatory of the [Euston] Manifesto proudly demonstrates what a hollow farce it is to present the.
Light posting from me will continue for a couple of days as my vacation wraps up; it has involved more success at acquiring hockey tickets than anticipated, with more predictable.
Sweet.BAGHDAD (AP) -- The Interior Ministry acknowledged Thursday that an Iraqi police officer whose existence had been denied by the Iraqis and the U.S. military is in fact an active member of the force, and said he now faces arrest for speaking to the media.Ministry spokesman...
Several months back, my friend Jonathan Sterne wrote an especially insightful post about social class and academia. One of the few American professors gifted enough to pass through Canada's protectionist.
The FBI files on the late Chief Justice contain some interesting information. For example, on his pooling booth goonery and his confirmation hearings with bonus John Bolton material:In July 1986,.
More school makes you live longer. Instead, Dr. Smith and others say, what may make the biggest difference is keeping young people in school. A few extra years of school is associated with extra years of life and vastly improved health decades later, in old age.In...
I'm very late in wading into the Jim Crow/federalism debate, but a couple of points I haven't seen anyone else make yet:Volokh is right that the "federalism permitted Jim Crow,.
Personal to Michael Ledeen: if you're going to defend an appallingly executed execution using a movie, couldn't you at least use a watchable one?
Wow, Notre Dame abjectly (and gloriously) humiliated in a bowl game it had no business being in--what are the odds?
Shorter W.:
Why is Women's E-news publishing this crap?Many other posts on the subject; Shakes has a comprehensive roundup.