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The Good Old Days

Back when people were kinder and man’s word was his bond.

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‘Affirmative Action for the Rich’ in College Admissions

After other controls are applied, household income is still a huge advantage.

Thinking about the Past

Thoughts after reading Part 2 of the Reuter’s series, “Slavery’s Descendants”

The MAGA Disconnect

They’re angry and yet having a good time.

SCOTUS Ends Affirmative Action

The inevitable has happened. Now for the fallout.

Trump and the Presidential Records Act

A legal defense without merit.

Chotiner Eviscerates Koppel on Kissinger

After giving a softball interview, he apparently expected one in return.

Culture and Our Brains

Our surroundings quite literally change how we see the world.

The Food is Too Damn High

Get me higher than the grocery bill.

Supreme Court Guts Clean Water Act

A 5-4 ruling overturns a unanimous decision from 1985.

China Calling in its Loans to Poor Countries

Debt-trap diplomacy has finally come home to roost.

Scalia Law School is Conservative!

The New York Times looks into ties between a DC area law school and the Supreme Court.

Community Colleges Not Serving the Community

A key pathway to success for low-income citizens isn’t working.

Patricia Schroeder, 1940-2023

The trailblazing Congresswoman is gone at 82.

The Limits of Academic Freedom

UPenn law professor Amy Wax as a test case.

Harvard Extension Fraud

How dare people who paid for a cut-rate degree claim they paid for the good one?

Ivy Ressentiment

Old men still bitter about where they went to college.

Addiction and the Public Health Question

A brief foray into looking at Alabama state policy on fighting addiction.

Supreme Court Clerks and Undergraduate Elitism

Culling for the primary feeder job in American legal system begins in high school.

Students Protest Harvard’s Comaroff Again

Understandable outrage at administrative complicity.

Ending College Degree Requirements

Too many jobs needlessly specify a bachelor’s.

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Colleges Fear Affirmative Action’s Demise

A pending Supreme Court ruling could be more impactful than many realize.

Roman Concrete Healed Itself

Why millenia-old concrete outlasts its modern version.

Clearing Tabs and Making Takes

In case you need some NYD reading.

Republican Leaders Are Killing Their Voters

Republicans are dying at a much higher rate than Democrats.

George Will on UATX (Part II)

Wherein I examine UATX specifically.

George Will on UATX (Part I)

Will discusses a nascent university and in doing so produced a cliched column about higher education.

Banning Trump From Office

The January 6 Committee recommends invoking the Insurrection Clause.

COVID’s Symptoms Have Evolved

The combination of new variants and increased immunity has changed how the disease presents.

Ash Carter, 1954-2022

A brilliant national security leader is gone too soon.

Fetterman and the Politics of Optics

Will voters overlook the elephant in the room?

Legendary Chemist Fired for Being a Hard Grader

A complicated case out of NYU.

Supreme Court Poised to Upend Everything

The term that kicks off today could undermine our entire system of government.

Queen Elizabeth II, 1926-2022

The UK’s longest-reigning monarch has passed, aged 96.

Fear of a White Scholar

President Biden had a meeting with some historians. The horrors.

Anti-Zionism Isn’t Anti-Semitism

Many young, progressive Jews are feeling unwelcome in young, progressive circles.

Obama’s Top Economist Opposes Biden Debt Relief Plan

An unlikely source argues that it’s too big and poorly targeted.

We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Constitution

Is it time to call the whole thing off?

Mar A Lago Mar A Lago

Politics, Law, and the Mar-a-Lago Search

That’s some catch, that Catch-22.

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Inflation Reduction Act Doesn’t Reduce Inflation?!

A bill that was never about the thing it’s called doesn’t do that thing.

CDC Loosens COVID Guidelines

The leading public health agency no longer recommends doing things people had already stopped doing.

President Joe Biden welcomes ASEAN leaders to the White House,Thursday, May 12, 2022, on the South Lawn. (Official White House Photo by Erin Scott) President Joe Biden welcomes ASEAN leaders to the White House,Thursday, May 12, 2022, on the South Lawn. (Official White House Photo by Erin Scott)

Joe Biden is Aging (Developing Story)

The 79-year-old will be 80 on his next birthday.

Ketanji Brown Jackson to Be Sworn in Today

Justice Stephen Breyer is retiring today and will swear his former law clerk in his replacement.

Diploma Mills Forced to Forgive $6 Billion in Student Loans

Phoenix, DeVry, and other scam colleges have reached a settlement.

Bye, Felicia

The Washington Post has fired a reporter for her rants against colleagues.

Coffee Makes You Live Longer

Yet another study that confirms my pre-existing biases.

The Identity Politics of Identity Politics

Who gets to claim Latino heritage?

Maximal Angst Despite Minimal Cause

Quite often, political fights are about attitudes rather than issues and polices.

Supreme Court Overturning Roe (Probably)

POLITICO has obtained what purports to be the 1st draft of the opinion.