I am frustrated by folks on the left who - let me say, I appreciate they're trying to figure out what the left needs to do differently to fix things, it's just ( Read more... )

No Googling! Answer off the top of your head.

Poll Hang in there, Chad!

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One hundred years ago today, a woman was voted into US Federal office for the first time: Congresswoman Jeannette Rankin, Republican, of Montana.

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Migod, somehow I made it to the age of fourty-mumble without being previously informed of the fact that the word "symposium" comes from (h/t OED) the Greek sumposion, from sumpotēs ‘fellow drinker,’ from sun- ‘together’ + potēs ‘drinker’ and literally means "drinking party ( Read more... )

Interesting talks to listen to! Halacha, Alfonso El Sabio, a secret history of US drug law, an anthropological/semiotic analysis of modern gambling vis a vis modern capitalism, and other good things.

I decided to see what Dwayne Carpenter (the author of the paper I just linked to) was up to these days, and googling turned up this interesting ( Read more... )

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I was going to write up a little essay about the way Hamilton incorporates Brechtian performance techniques and whether Brecht still packs any punch in the twenty-first century.

But then for some reason it became a rap battle instead.
Recommended for theater theory geeks. Very well done, thought provoking ( Read more... )

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Huh. Fascinating. From Justin Fox at Bloomberg View (h/t MarginalRevolution): A less-familiar story that Zunz recounts in his book is how the Carnegie Foundation for the Enhancement of Teaching used its wealth and clout to pressure existing private institutions to move away from their sectarian roots as training academies for ministers and shift ( Read more... )

Paging Scadians, and, well, everybody. Via Metafilter, which has further details. I don't usually have much more than an intellectual appreciation of slapstick, but this is hilarious.

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