Month: December 2020

I have lately been doing some work on cognition errors, prompted by a rereading of Jerome Groopman's How Doctors Think (2007). That put me in mind of a chapter I ...

Horace Greeley, 1861. Republican Party of Texas, 2020:  

Route 66 was opened in 1926 as part of the original U.S. highway system. Connecting Chicago to Los Angeles via Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, it was ...

Hofstra University announced that its new president will be Susan Poser.  Poser is the provost of University of Illinois - Chicago, and previously served as the dean of the University…

Burlington, Vermont has established a Task Force on Reparations, the first such municipal task force in the country.  We have put out a request for proposals from academics who are…

Colorado College has announced that its new president will be L. Song Richardson.  Richardson is currently dean of the UC-Irvine law school.  She holds a JD from Yale University.  

If so, he will be only the fourth sitting president to boycott the inauguration of his successor, and the first in 152 years, as my friend Jim Bendat explains in…

Queen's University seeks applicants for the David Sharpe Professorship of Indigenous Law.  Click here for the announcement.

From an email message that I recently received: JLPP Spring Virtual Symposium Alternative Realities, Conspiracy Theory, and the Constitutional and Democratic Order April 16, 2021 University of St. Thomas School…

This is a guest post by Prof. Jay Smith, of the history department at UNC-Chapel Hill. It originally appeared on The Academe Blog. A Telling Blame Game at UNC Guest ...