The presumption of male privilege is rarely declared so openly as when ignorant people begin yodeling about Title IX, which Congress passed in 1972 to counteract the self-evident gender disparities throughout the education system. Consider the latest cry for gender equity from E.M. Swift of...
Author: davenoon
Rodger asks, "How would readers feel about adding these sets of questions to graduate school comprehensive exams in international relations?"Some powers proudly announce their production of second and third generation.
Best known for The Battle of Algiers, Pontecorvo died yesterday in Rome. I watched this film again this past summer, a delayed reaction to this post written by Rob a.
I can't comment substantively on the proposed French law that would criminalize the denial of the World War I-era Armenian genocide. I know too little about French politics to predict whether it will pass or not (though some of the reporting suggests it probably won't),...
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Mark Lynch of Abu Aardvark has just rolled out a new Middle Eastern "blog-journal," Qahwa Sada (which evidently means "black coffee"). Lynch explains the premise:Why a new blog-journal by Middle.
In addition to throwing a competent knuckleball and embarking on a genuine, wake-up-in-a-ditch bender, it's been a lifelong ambition of mine to write an article on foreign affairs for The Weekly Standard. It can't be that difficult, as Waller Newell demonstrates this week in yet...
A brief public service announcement here to any new or soon-to-be new parents in the greater LG&M area: I cannot recommend strongly enough against giving your sick, six-month-old child a.
Shorter Confederate Wankee: Occam's Razor clearly tells us that the simplest explanation for this study is that a team of researchers devoted years toward earning respected positions in their fields;.
Since everyone appears to be thinking about nukes this week, I thought I might pass along part of an e-mail sent to me today by a former student who is now attending graduate school somewhere within driving distance of the Nevada Test Site. She ventured...
Although the home version of Lawyers, Guns and Money has run into snags at the design stage -- for some reason, combining the principles of "Strat-o-Matic Baseball" with "Battleship" is.
Having at last unraveled the pneumatics of the internet, Sen. Ted Stevens -- whose full psychotic break I anticipate will occur sometime in 2007 -- offers us all an important.