Month: April 2021

Apollo 11 astronaut dies at 90.

Georgia State University has announced that its new dean will be LaVonda Reed, a faculty member at Syracuse Law and the university's associate provost for faculty affairs.  Reed, who holds…

Fact checking is always important, but perhaps never more so than when tracking down the origin of harmful rumors. Readers of this blog know that I have dispelled an urban ...

I have an essay today on Tropics of Meta about Ben Carson's new venture as head of a non-profit with a very unfortunate name: TROPICS OF META HISTORIOGRAPHY FOR THE ...

Lolita Buckner Inniss (currently Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University Distinguished Professor, Robert G. Storey Distinguished Faculty Fellow, and Professor of Law at SMU) has been named dean of…

"Feelin' Alright" was written in 1968 by Dave Mason of Traffic for the band's first album, also named Traffic. Released that year as a single, "Feelin' Alright" did not chart, ...

The Appalachian School of Law has selected B. Keith Faulkner as its next dean.  Faulkner, who will take over this summer,  has been serving as dean of Liberty University Law…

Ellen Muehleberger (@emuehleb), Professor of History and Middle East Studies at the University of Michigan, posted to Twitter a list of advice for her students about what should go in…

Saturday, April 24, is National Independent Bookstore Day. Every independent bookstore is unique -- which is sort of the point -- so there is no unified program. Here is the…

  Here are some gut reactions to perhaps ponder and/or annoy:  Jury came to the correct conclusion. Felt little joy thinking of the senseless loss of George Floyd's life.  Felt…