Feminists Choosing Life of New York (FCLNY) has filed suit in New York State Supreme Court to block the use of taxpayer funds to pay women recruited to donate their…
Morehouse College (which, as most readers will know, is a private historically black liberal arts college for men) is in the news for its ban on “the wearing of women's clothes, makeup, high…
Posh Law Prof Pads, via Above The Law, including an $8.45 million Manhattan pied-à-terre recently purchased by Daniel Fischel, former dean of the University of Chicago Law School. The others,…
Via WSJ Law Blog, on Monday Deputy Attorney General David Ogden released a memo affirming the Obama administration’s policy on medical marijuana disclosed earlier this year. The memo states that:…
In a two-part series two weeks ago (The Disappearing Academic Fox? Parts I and II), I discussed Edward Carr’s article in the Autumn edition of Intelligent Life, The Last Days…
Last week, the New York Times focused on the issue of multiple births from fertility treatments, including IVF and intrauterine insemination. Stephanie Saul begins with a two part series, here…
cross posted from madisonian.netWith the second movie in the Twilight series (New Moon) imminently about to appear on the big screen, I found myself getting interested in this pop culture…
The Houston Chronicle has a very nice story on native daughter Annette Gordon-Reed, who won the Pulitzer Prize in history and the National Book Award in non-fiction for The Hemingses…
We've just passed the 150th anniversary of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (it was October 16, 1859), so it's time for a post on Harpers Ferry....Back in the 1930s…