In a week I will be leaving for a 3 month adventure in Israel by way of France. I leave on Monday, Fe

Crimson: Radcliffe Institute Dean Drew Gi

I’m leaving for Chicago this morning on very official business that involves a Saturday night stop at

Radical Muslim: We

And this happened

While Steven Lev

If anybody deserves to go into space, it is

Here it is.

Despite an awesome nickname

I think Rudy Giuliani may have the best p

I’m a bit late on this now, but I thought I would point it out anyway.

They’re magical because the AP seems to think that only one side can break them. This is the lede* in

Dave Anderson’s NYTimes column<

Coverage at CNN.

Steve Dillard has announced that Sout

I’m actually pretty proud of myself for this one.

Two legal cases being debated at the Volokh Conspiracy right now involve:

“If they only gave work, let alone awards, to non-sickos, non-egomaniacs and non-hypocrites, there wo

Since I last blogged about gender issues,

…that is, anybody who creates and

Eugene Volokh discussed an

Time has an article up that

Along with smoking,

In regards to University of Southern California’s Daily Trojan fiasco, I’m glad to see the

The San Francisco State Associated Student

About a week ago, CNN ran this

There is pe

Britney Spears’s sleazy ex-husband Kevin Federline is supposedly planning to sell a sex tape the two

In the comments, Marshall challenges me to ellaborate on the reasons for my support of McCain.

Senator John McCain: “My advocacy f

With the AP now calling Vir

Ask G

Today’s Science Times digs deeper int

I’ve talked before about

I’ve now read this theory at Southern

CNN.com: CNN projects that an amendment to the Virginia Constitution defining marriage as a union bet

Our favorite (ex-)University of Chicago blog has moved to C

I’m officially taking the stance that the Republicans are in for a lashing this Tuesday. Many centri

Hat tip

I don’t want to dwell on this too long, but I have to point out something that really annoyed me, asi

Yesterday’s Science Times had a very interesting article summing up current research that shows

Iran announced the results of their infamou

The Sandmonkey–who often provides a great alternate perspective on the Middle East–brings to the at

1) Maroon Sports Editor emeritus Sean Ahmed brings to our attention the Maroons’ next football oppone

A huge time sink for

This past weekend I had a celebratory dinner with my brilliant lady friend and two of my favorite din

This just in on CNN.com:

In response to m

1) Unemployed man request

Gary Comer, founder of Lands’ E

The NYTimes reports: “In a sign of what could be an extremely unusual fall campaign, the two sides [McCain and Obama] said Saturday that they would be open to holding joint forums or unmoderated debates across the country in front…

So, I’m going to try something here. I love food. I love writing. I love reading what people write ab

I tend to be less intellectually interested in personal life scandals of elected officials than other

This week I fully satisfied my University of Chicago withdrawal symptoms with two fantastic events. O

1) Even the conservatives are startin

Arthur C. Clarke, in one of my favorite quotes, got it right. In reference to

Israel wants peace: 67% of Israelis want ta

To those celebrating, I wish you and your family a happy and healthy new year. I’ll be observing the

I’m going to be honest: I’m a bit scared. It seems our readers have an odd obsession with Iranian Pr

It seems the trusty Chicago Maroon has come out with its annual

John McCain and other more centrist Republicans are battling President Bush over extended executive a

The New York Post last week ran a great interview with

A brief preface: The University of Chicago used to be a Big Ten Division I school with a legitimate f

Steve Irwin was killed by a stin

Andre Agassi just bid farewell to the U.S. Open and the world after a tough four-set loss to qualifie

I’d like to point out to our Chicago readers (or anyone else interested for that matter) that the fal

1) It looks like a bunch of Chicago restaurants hold similar sentiments to those I expressed in

There has been lots of talk of the jockeying going on regarding the formation of the beefed up intern

With the U.S. Open beginning tomorrow, I thought it important to mention that this is the first year

This is not a joke. In a press conference this morning,

I’ve been getting some slack for

Conspiritor Ilya Somin ask

Ok, this is

This article from

Steve Dillard has a great post up at Southern Appeal

Will Baude throws back to a

Steve Dillard over at Southern Appeal has a very interesting post up detailing data that show

Having successfully cleared the

Before our president

- New York State judges

We’re evidently the reason

I have written many times before, both here and elsewhere, about

Last weekend, I spend Saturday with my brilliant lady friend going to the

I’ve been a New Yorker all my life, and I’ve never seen anything like

Roger Federer defended his Wimbledon title for his fourth straight, beating the 20-year old Spaniard

We’ve been having some nice discussions via the comments feature lately. I’d like to thank those who

Steve Dillard at Southern Appeal

Yesterday’s NYTimes Arts section had an article about

An interesting new study fr

David Post over at the Volokh Conspiracy has

It seems the

I thought I might just go ahead and assume that my co-bloggers and our readers are huge tennis fans l

That was a very Drudge Report-esque headline, but justified

My grandmother is teaching a seminar this year at The New School<

I just finished the phenomenal book

CNN has just released a

My mini bio below says that I am taking one yea

We’ve gotten some hits from this post at

Today’s NYTimes has an

Today, with co-blogger Andrew Hammond serving as a Student Marshall, I graduated from the University

I had the pleasure of accompanying my brilliant lady friend to her Phi

Oxblog’s David Adesnik has a great post up about the

I just returned from the farewell party for Steve Klass, Vice

Earlier today, The State of New York Court of Appeals

Thank you, on this Memorial Day, to those who have given their lives for us and for this great countr

Blogging may be a bit light while I study for my Medical Genetics final, which as it were, will be my

Hamas just shot

Andrew Sullivan and Jonathan

A California state appeals

My sister Caroline is in the process of moving back to New York for the summer. It seems moving out o

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has

It may have taken a long time, but justice has been served.

Not that I think Iran isn’t capable of

It seems I am not the first person slightly intrigued by

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