The Faculty Lounge

Apropos of the Times Magazine article yesterday, Teaching Boys and Girls Separately, my colleague David Cohen has a paper up on SSRN entitled No Boy Left Behind?  Single Sex Education…

The New York Times quotes Craig Robinson, Brown's basketball coach, being softly critical of certain tactics Harvard may have used in order to net a Top 25 basketball recruiting class. …

The New York Times reports on the ongoing  challenge to enforce  the voting rights of Alabamians who have been convicted of crimes.   In the article, an Alabama Republican is quoted…

The Air Force has announced that an Airbus/Northrop Grumman consortium won a massive contract to provide 179 air tankers.   The NY Times (and everyone else) calls it a shocker: The…

Just a reminder for those interested in such things that Larry Solum is continuing to aggregate data on entry level law school hiring here.  Yale and Harvard are way out…

How easy it would have been to miss the news that Matt Gonzalez, a former San Francisco County public defender, has agreed to serve as Ralph Nader's running mate on…

According to today's news accounts, Linda Greenhouse - the Pulitzer winning Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times - has accepted a buyout offer from her employer.  This is…

One of the remarkable things about this primary season is that Clinton and Obama are contesting some states that rarely receive signficant attention from Dems in either the primary or…

Jeffrey Rosen has offered up his view that the Democrats have a very short list of viable Supreme Court appointees, should a member of the party be elected President.  Doug…

I must not have been paying attention but I've only recently discovered, watching a Volvo ad, that the car now offers an optional "heartbeat sensor" - or psycho killer detector…