Month: December 2019

On the eve of the UK election, it seems appropriate to post Anthony Julius's open letter on the subject of Labor Party anti-Semitism. For those who do not know him,…

A recent article in the New York Times, reporting on a newly discovered fossil site in Colorado, included drawings of two extinct mammals. One was described as the “wolf-size Eoconodons” ...

h/t Jeff Rice

Bob Dylan has always denied that "Mr. Tambourine Man" has anything to do with drugs, so never mind the "trip upon your magic swirling ship" or "disappearing through the smoke ...

   

New AALS section on Community Economic Development  If you’re at the AALS meeting, don’t miss the inaugural meeting of the new Provisional Section on Community Economic Development (CED) on Saturday,…

Professor Kenneth L. Port was Mitchell Hamline Law School.  He taught intellectual property. He was 58.  

Fred Hampton, the leader of the Illinois Black Panthers, was killed on this day in 1969 -- shot in his bed by Chicago police officers under the command of Cook ...

I have a review of Trish Hall's Writing to Persuade in The New Rambler: How to Influence People Every writer needs an editor, but not every editor needs to write ...