We all know “Dog Bites Man” is not news, though it can be poetry. The recent, widely-covered Man Bites Dog incident is the classic antithesis. In this case a drunken guy bit a police dog outside a bar. But what about the other permutations? Bite Dogs Man: Human-interest follow-up on the previous story: Man […]
Matt Yglesias worries that my blog might prevent me from getting tenure by making it look as though I’m not working hard enough. I doubt the blog will make a difference either way, as long as I keep publishing journal articles and the like. One strategy, however, might be to list blog posts on my […]
Like Matt, I also got interviewed by a journalist from the Chronicle of Higher Education for a story about blogging. I don’t think I said anything I couldn’t stand by in print, but who knows? I wouldn’t be the first interviewee to be damned out of his own mouth:
Junior faculty member Kieran Healy, soon […]
Nina Simone has died at the age of 70. Here’s a collection of hers that has some of her best recordings, including “Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood”, “Mississippi Goddamn” and the astonishing I Put a Spell on You. The clip doesn’t do it justice: In particular, you don’t get to hear her sing And I […]
While we’re playing around with quotations, here’s a good one in praise of Globalization, from one of its earliest prophets. It clearly articulates the cultural and economic benefits of free trade and open markets and expresses the contemporary neoconservative agenda pretty well, I think.
[Free-market capitalism] has, through its exploitation of its world-market given a […]
The Sixth International is an interesting blog I’ve recently discovered, via comments left here by one of its authors. Its tagline reads:
‘”I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken.” I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every court house, and […]
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