Posts about the academic labor market by the Invisible Adjunct and D-squared have focused my attention on my need for a better business card. In some academic fields, business cards are a taken-for-granted item of clothing. In others, they are a gauche acknowledgment that one is involved in paid labor of some sort. Sociology is […]
Watch closely to see an interesting bit of rhetorical misdirection from Stanley Fish, in his Op-Ed piece in today’s Times. He appears to be rebutting those who think Clarence Thomas acted in bad faith by voting to strike down the kind of Affirmative Action policies Thomas may himself have benefitted from:
In fact the opinion is […]
If you’re one of those people who thinks there are two kinds of people in the world, you might say there are the ones who go in for Audrey Hepburn and the ones who go in for Katharine Hepburn. I’ve always been solidly of the second type, myself.
I picked up Alan Bennett’s Writing Home last night. It was first published about ten years ago. I remember reading the reviews, and even seeing it in a Waterstone’s in Cork at one point. But I never read it, and now I realise this was a big mistake. Luckily, it’s just been reissued (and updated) […]
A post by Henry Farrell reminds me of a question: When at your local Borders Bookstore, is it worse to be a philosopher and find the Metaphysics section stocked mostly with books by David Icke, or a sociologist and find the Sociology section stocked with books by Ann Coulter? There’s not much to choose. My […]
Bill Frist is damned out of his own mouth, courtesy of some research from Billmon. I guess this is a good example of that “revisionist history” that the president was talking about. This process is what Ben Hyde calls the “internet acid bath.”
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