Month: August 2009

At the risk of sounding like a coffee table book about coffee tables in the shape of a coffee table... I have just completed Scott Rosenberg's new book, Say Everything. …

In what one hopes is an unusual combination, a musician, the Zodiac Killer, and the Tennessee bar association cross paths on the message board of Goner Records, a record store…

Last week brought a wonderful volume that I've been eagerly awaiting all summer:  Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors' A New Literary History of America.  The book has about 250 essays…

One of the new realities of law faculty hiring is that appointments committees increasingly tilt toward candidates with advanced degrees, a fellowship/VAP experience, or both.  But where do you get that…

Following Al's musings on pre-Civil War curricula in honor of the new school year, I thought I'd share my own musings as my little 4 year old trudged off to…

From the Washington Post: The crisis may be turning out very well for many of the behemoths that dominate U.S. finance. A series of federally arranged mergers safely landed troubled…

With classes starting today and curriculum on my mind, I thought I'd talk a little bit about the curriculum of the antebellum southern college.  In algebra class, they sometimes studied…

I've been following now for some years the periodic stories about politicians' writings when they were in college or law school.  Hillary Clinton's Wellesley College thesis on Saul Alinsky got…

Following up on last week’s post, Let Atheists (or Jews or Muslims) Care For Your Pets After the Rapture, this news video clip discusses the rapture industry, including an interview…

Oh, that kind of “stimulus package!” (New York Post) More on the economists, this time Justin Wolfers (Freakonomics), versus Posner versus Romer (The Atlantic).  Prior Lounge coverage: Conversations About Richard…