Category: Blog

In theory, yes.  Actually, they’re the majority of Democrats.  I wondered today when I snapped open my Denver Post and read the following, about when the Democratic President met with congressional Republicans yesterday […]

While I’m waiting for the exclusive report from Classy Claude to be filed from this year’s meeting of the American Historical Association, I thought I’d draw your attention to a comment from The […]

From a distance, of course–Potterville is about 1,137 miles away, 4,659 feet higher, and 70 degrees colder than San Diego this morning.  Damn! but I wish I were waking up in the Hotel del Coronado […]

Lee Skallerup Bessette offers some good advice for people on the academic job market in “Dressing for Success” without blowing a lot of dough.  Her advice:  make sure that whatever you wear fits […]

Nina Totenberg’s report on All Things Considered last night on the “strip search” case heard yesterday at the Supreme Court is the only news report I can find that notes that lone woman Justice Ruth […]

Why do white people write as though “the South” is comprised only of white people? A friend of mine, interviewing candidates for a fellowship, once complained that students trained at Yale always wrote […]