Month: September 2016

I'm delighted to report that Dr. Nick J. Sciullo is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell.  Nick is a graduate of Georgia State University Department…

My friend Derek Black of the University of South Carolina Law School has just published Ending Zero Tolerance: The Crisis of Absolute School Discipline.  Cribbing now from the New York…

Over the years I've had a few civil rights trivia questions to complement the courthouse trivia.  We had the Edmund Pettus Bridge a while back, for instance.  Maybe I could…

Here are sone of their post-1941 songs, all about defeating Hitler:      

I had a really productive day in the archives today -- so productive that I was able to get out a little early.   On the way home I passed…

The Almanac Singers were the progenitors of the The Weavers, featuring Pete Seeger and Lee Hays, along with Woody Guthrie and occasionally Josh White, Burl Ives, and others.  Active in…

From an email message which I recently received: Executive Director The Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance invites applications for the position of Executive Director. Together with the Faculty…

So says me and nearly two dozen others who work on questions of medical ethics, in a recent letter to The Department of Health and Human Services in response to…

From an email message which I received earlier today: Hiring Announcement: Assistant Dean of Career Services at Chapman Law School Chapman University’s Dale E. Fowler School of Law is accepting…

The Brooklyn Commons is a center for progressive community activists, hosting numerous events and providing office space to organizations such as Jacobin Magazine, WBAI-FM, and the Marxist Education Project.  Tonight, however,…