Total Media Dominance
My media empire continues its slow takeover of the Research Triangle with an unprecedented two articles in this week’s Independent, one reviewing a recent book on civil rights landmarks in the South...
View ArticleFISA Crisis 2008
The New York Times has dueling op-eds on the FISA issue: the editorial board is unhappy with Obama, while Morton Halprin (who was spied on by Nixon) believes the FISA compromise is the best legislation...
View ArticleIf Ever a Civil Rights Movement Was Needed in America
If ever a civil rights movement was needed in America, it is for the Republican Party. If ever we needed to start marching for freedom and constitutional rights, it’s for the Republican Party. The...
View ArticleFriday Night Links
Friday night links. * Gingrich: “If Civil War, suffrage, and Civil Rights are to mean anything,” Sotomayor must be barred from the Supreme Court. Who does he think won the Civil War? * Tom Tancredo: “I...
View ArticleMonday Night Links
* It’s been fifty years since the Greensboro Sit-Ins. Appropriate the city’s Civil Rights Museum, long vaporware, finally opened today. * Bill Watterson has given his first interview since 1989. The...
View ArticleA Debate Over What Kinds of Rights Should Have Priority
A truly inspired reframing of Rand-Paul-style libertarianism at The Edge of the American West: Should your tax dollars be used to pay police to remove people from private businesses solely because the...
View ArticleGlenn Beck, Graverobber
If you agree that assumption is reasonable, then you must also agree Beck’s contention that his “we” were the architects of the civil rights movement is worse than nonsensical, worse than mendacious,...
View ArticleNo One Should Have to Wait until They Are 55 Years Old to Begin Living as Her...
The headline (“American’s Next Great Civil Rights Struggle”) makes it sound like a terrible reality TV show, but the New Republic‘s report on transgender activism is otherwise important reading. Also...
View ArticleRadicals
A TPM reader responds to the latest nonsense. Professor Bell was a HERO who dedicated his life to desegregating the United States. From his job as the only black lawyer in the Justice Department’s...
View ArticleTuesday Night Links
* Welcome to My Massive Open Online Cult! Welcome to my MOOC—Massive Open Online Cult—a 10-week course based on the revolutionary educational models of Coursera and edX. Due to the “massive” nature of...
View ArticleMonday Night Links!
* Dr. Nancy E. Snow, professor of philosophy in Marquette University’s Klingler College of Arts and Sciences, is the recipient of a $2.6 million grant that will fund interdisciplinary research on...
View ArticleI Guess That’s Why They Call It Jet Lag Links
* “Fantastic Breasts and Where To Find Them.” NSFW, and probably deserves a trigger warning for imagery of sexual violence too. * Academics, Public Work, And Labor. * Kids Returned To Honduras, Killed....
View ArticleWednesday Links!
* The end of UW: Gov. Scott Walker to propose 13 percent cut, more freedom for UW System. UW System predicts layoffs, no campus closings under budget cuts. Layoffs, Building Closures, Slowdown on...
View ArticleWednesday Links!
* This is the only movie franchise Disney should produce from now on. * On indigenous futurism. * It’s not time to degree, it’s time from degree. * Horrifying, tragic triple murder in Chapel Hill. *...
View ArticleMonday Jr. Links!
* Who knew my politics has a name? the best minor faction of the Russian Revolution is the dissident interplanetary left pic.twitter.com/7MdsrXDFjP — Mark J. Nelson (@mjntendency) July 16, 2017 * How...
View ArticleTuesday Morning Links!
* CFP: Disasters, Apocalypses, and Catastrophes: PCA/ACA 2018. * When Universities Swallow Cities. * UC Davis’ Katehi will teach one course per quarter, conduct research in $318,000 position. Ah, so...
View ArticleFall Break Links! Every Tab I Had Open Is Closed!
* New open-access scholarship: Star Wars and the History of Transmedia Storytelling. My contribution is on Rogue One and the crisis of authority that seems to have plagued all the post-Lucas Star Wars...
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