Month: July 2009

Money Magazine has announced its list of America's top 100 "best small towns."  The top ten are:1) Louisville, Colorado2) Chanhassen, Minnesota3) Papillion, Nebraska4) Middleton, Wisconsin5) Milton, Massachusetts6) Warren, New Jersey7)…

Apropos of the start of today's hearings, and all the hullabaloo over Sotomayor's wise Latina comment, it's useful to ask whether the existence of a wise female Justice on the Supreme Court ...

Over at propertyprof, Ben Barros (whose scholarship overlaps in surprising ways Justice Alito's work when he was at Yale) has a post on the possibility (unlikely, I know) that law…

Yup--Mary Eastman, author of the important proslavery novel Aunt Phillis' Cabin (notice the parallel title to Uncle Tom's Cabin--Eastman was writing in response to Harriet Beecher Stowe) was married to…

How’s the traffic on your faculty listserve these days?  Quiet? Active?  The answer, along with other information about inter-faculty email traffic, may hold the key to predicting both your school’s…

Sometimes the real news seems so good that you wonder whether The Onion is mere surplussage.  Such is the state of affairs today, as leading British papers the Times of London…

It seems everyone is talking about Michael Lewis’s new Vanity Fair article, The Man Who Crashed the World.  From the lead-in: Almost a year after A.I.G.’s collapse, despite a tidal wave…

1.  I signed African-American superstar and future hall-of-famer Jackie Robinson.2.  I drafted the first Latin-American baseball player, future hall-of-famer Roberto Clemente.3.  I created the framework for baseball's "farm club" system.4. …

So, you’ve decided that egg and sperm selling are not for you, and the California IOUs don’t look like such a great investment now that Bank of America, Wells Fargo…

Wednesday, July 9, 1930: Dow 219.08 +0.75 (0.3%) Washington Irving's book “The Great Mississippi Bubble” republished by Random House. "The story was written about a hundred years ago and the…