Recommending a Ross Douthat column is like seeing an ivory-billed woodpecker. You know that it is probably impossible, but theoretically one could emerge once every century. Amazingly, today is the day, as Douthat writes about the Ivy League existing to reproduce privilege. Of course, Douthat...
Author: Erik Loomis
Anytime a major newspaper discusses historiographical trends, it's worth noting. That it's about the rise of the history of capitalism as a field is more notable. In my opinion, this.
Pierce pretty much sums up my feelings about Obama's clear support for the Keystone XL pipeline and the broader failure of this nation to do anything at all about climate.
Like many school districts, Attleboro, Massachusetts privatized its school meals, hiring the Whitsons Culinary Group. Then this happened: Students at an Attleboro, Massachusetts, middle school went hungry this week, if they had a negative balance on their pre-paid lunch cards. Five cents of debt was...
Republican extremism and a complete unwillingness to deal with the Kenyan usurper is the one thing keeping us from cuts to Social Security: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s proposed.
Rutgers fires abusive and homophobic basketball coach not when it finds out about his disturbing rants against players. Rather, it fires him only after the story becomes national and gives.
North Carolina Republicans have filed a bill establishing a state religion of North Carolina that combines ignoring the 1st Amendment with nullification: SECTION 1. The North Carolina General Assembly asserts that the Constitution of the United States of America does not prohibit states or their...
I'd always wondered why rain smelled so good after a dry period. I first noticed this in the summer growing up in Oregon, when it doesn't rain. Then in September.
Will be in Toronto conferencing later this week. I know nothing about this place except for a) the Blue Jays and b) I get to pay with stuff in some.
Free agency in baseball is basically dead, at least for high-end players. Players' current teams are buying the best players out of free agency with long-term deals that will keep most of them on the same team for the majority of their careers. Just this...
I am really skeptical of guestworker programs doing anything other than providing a structure to exploit vulnerable workers. The history of guestworker programs is basically terrible and the present isn't.
It can't be stated often enough that slavery was inexorably tied with the rise of capitalism in the United States. Historian Walter Johnson: Without slavery, however, the survey maps of.