Matt is, of course, right: the fact that college sports have become a commercial machine from which athletes, and athletes alone, are not permitted to profit, is a scandal. In many ways, I think it's a similar bait-and-switch that's going on with grad student unionization;...
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In Hitch's world, these things are cool:Shooting Iraqis.Torturing Iraqis.Bombing Iraqis.Invading Iraqi homes.Destroying Iraqi property.Lying about Iraqi weapons.Incarcerating random Iraqis.Destroying Iraqis' historical heritage.Spurring a violent insurgency on Iraqis' soil.But he is.
That was rather disconcerting; roughly three hours with no blogspot. I feel like I have my left arm back...
Lovely post from Wolcott on intelligent design and the neocon right. Long and utterly unsurprising story short, there's plenty of evidence, usually from their own mouths, that many of the intellectual poobahs of conservative world don't give a rat's ass for God apart from His...
In response to recent attempts to pretend that the Republican Party is like a European Christian Democratic Party, providing care to new mothers to go along with cultural conservatism, Sharon.
More evidence about Alito's obvious desire to overturn or gut Roe, and more importantly further evidence (granting that this shouldn't be necessary) that vague, banal claims about stare decisis at.
Shorter John Sexton: We don't want graduate student teaching at NYU to exploitative like it is at those public universities. In order to make sure this state of affairs comes to fruition, we'll use reactionary decisions by NLRB Bush appointees to ruin the careers of...
Shorter InstaWife: Movies like Fahrenheit 9/11 are just simple, boring propaganda nobody wants to see, which is why the releasing studio took such a bath, earning only $222 million on.
Good and bad news for Hugo Chavez:Venezuela (Reuters) - Parties allied to Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez won 89 percent of votes counted in a preliminary tally of nearly 80 percent.
Elton Beard says a lot of what I was going to say about Garance Franke-Ruta's recent article about women who get multiple abortions. But there's a particular type of argument here that crops up a lot, and I think it's worth pointing out why it's...
I suppose pointing this out at this late date is as futile as complaining when people misuse "begging the question," but apparently Roger Simon's deployment of concepts he doesn't understand.
Adam Cohen makes short work of Faux News' campaign for Christmas.This year's Christmas "defenders" are not just tolerating commercialization - they're insisting on it. They are also rewriting Christmas history.