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?
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Why is Women's E-news publishing this crap?Many other posts on the subject; Shakes has a comprehensive roundup.
Good article about middle school/junior high in the New York Times. I've never taught 7th graders, but my general recollections of being a middle school student seem to accord pretty well with the experiences of the teachers. Thinking back to it still gives me the willies;...
Via Ezra, I see that Paul Campos' terrific article (which I've tried to link to before) has been taken out from behind the subscriber wall by TNR in time for.
Shorter Treason-Wankee: "I have wasted a shitload of time."I truly fail to understand Right Blogistan's obsession with Jamil Hussein, but I suppose if it can be proven for certain that.
In case you're in the mood for more, I have a post at TAPPED on the subject. Longtime readers will particularly enjoy the fact that Plano, which last year Kaus was using as anecdotal evidence that even the most liberal elitist communities shared recoiled (just like...
Applebaum:Someday, perhaps, when Iraq's civil war is over, and when Iraqis have achieved a measure of personal safety—an even more basic human requirement than political freedom—it may be possible for.
Has anyone ever seen the 1959 Our Man in Havana, directed by Carol Reed and starring Alec Guiness? I'm just finishing a Graham Greene collection (more on that later), and.