The Faculty Lounge

BDS is the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel. In the below video, the Prime Minister of Canada explains why he opposes it:  

There are many good reasons – both humane and political – to wish Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg a speedy and complete recovery from her recent lung cancer surgery. ...

The New Riders of the Purple Sage opened for the Grateful Dead at the famous Berkeley Community Theater concert in the summer of 1971 -- from which I was kicked ...

As I have written before, the website Science Based Medicine is a daily must-read for anyone interested in developments in medicine, or simply in critical thinking. The five or six ...

I have a piece on Slate this morning, once again addressing the absence of a Code of Conduct for the U.S. Supreme Court. Here are some key paragraphs: The first…

This just in: The University of Miami invites nominations and applications for the position of Dean of the School of Law. The next Dean should be an innovative thinker and…

Yesterday's New York Times Book Review includes the following sentence from Charles Graeber’s The Breakthrough: Immunotherapy and the Race to Cure Cancer, as quoted in a review by Mimi Swartz: [He was] ...

Richard Wirtz  has passed on January 3, 2019.  He was dean of the University of Tennessee from 1991 to 1998.  He was graduated from Amherst, Princeton University, and Standford Law…

One of the most famous and beloved American folk songs, "Wildwood Flower" was first published as sheet music in 1860, composed by Joseph Philbrick Webster. It was recorded by the ...

This seemed like a good time to post a reminder about my comment policy: This blog allows both pseudonymous and fully anonymous comments. I may respond to the former from…