In the university "settlements" with Donald Trump, the universities promise, on one hand, to eliminate or minimize diversity, equity, and inclusion, and, on the other hand, to heighten awareness of and punishment for antisemitism. Not misogyny, not racism, just antisemitism. Further, antisemitism is being defined more...
I'm not the kind of person to rush to get the newest Iphone even if my plan makes me eligible for a cheap upgrade, but I would make an exception.
This is a strange framing of actions that are perfectly consistent: Eight years ago, Eric Holder, the attorney general in the Obama administration, embarked on a quest with a single,.
One of the few advantages of getting old is that you eventually get better at not doing things you don't want to do, and what I don't want to do is eat breakfast, as that meal has been traditionally conceptualized in the Anglo-American world. I don't...
Kentucky has a thing called "Fancy Farm" where politicians of both parties gather to do retail politics: The annual Fancy Farm Picnic is a massive barbecue and bipartisan campaign rally.
On August 3, 1931, the Unemployed Council in Chicago led black residents in protecting the furniture of a 72 year old resident of South Side being evicted from her home.
Come to think of it, it never was: The Senate on Saturday approved the nomination of Jeanine Pirro, an ardent loyalist of President Trump and a Fox News fixture, confirming the cable news personality to a top prosecutor post in Washington, D.C. Pirro, a former county prosecutor...
It turns out that putting massive taxes on imported computer goods increases the prices of consumer goods: Companies are starting to shift more tariff-related costs onto consumers. Many businesses chose.
Remember that naive time when it seemed like George W. Bush would be the worst president of the 21st century? “DESTROY” stickers were affixed this week to hundreds of cases.
Luca enjoying his new digs Moar Jeffrey Epstein, and more incriminating talk from Donald Trump. He seems to say, in his usual word salad, that he broke off with Epstein because Epstein was poaching his spa employees. I will leave it to the commenters to speculate...
Interesting, if somewhat puzzling, article in the NYT on the last surviving Japanese veterans of World War II: Kunshiro Kiyozumi is a small man with gray hair and a stooped.
xr:d:DAFWoD7VYeg:11,j:44593341580,t:23010316 I know districts in which the young people prostrate themselves before books, and like savages kiss their pages, although they cannot read a single letter.” Jorge Luis Borges, “The.