Archive | April, 2004

Like Randy and Howard Bashman, I liked Shattered Glass, and will reiterate my recommendation of it, and also urge you once again to see my favorite recent movie, American Splendor, which Howard also really liked.

I have been on a bit of an Ella Fitzgerald kick the past week. So last Sunday I posted a Duke Ellington lyric popularized by Ella. Today, I thought I would go with Cole Porter, another masterful song writer whose work Ella helped make famous (though, like Ellington, Porter’s body of work extends far beyond […]

No really, or so says this AP story: The son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi said Wednesday Arab countries should support President Bush’s campaign to promote democracy in the Middle East. . . . “Instead of shouting and criticizing the American initiative, you have to bring democracy to your countries, and then there will be […]

Several readers e-mailed me with interesting reactions to my post My Name. I did not initially receive their messages while traveling because they were screened by my anti-spam program running at home. Because I was only at home for a few hours on Friday night before leaving early on Saturday morning for Las Vegas (where […]

I have no sympathy for deliberate serial cheating reporters, like Janet Cook or Jason Blair, especially those who have enjoyed a career of privilege. I am appalled at the life after what should be professional death that is sometimes enjoyed by those who happen also to be of the right political hew. Like Mike Barnacle, […]

An excellent piece on the dilemmas faced by a Jewish, democratic state in dealing with its minority population, and vice versa, by my GMU colleague Peter Berkowitz.

Matthew Yglesias is staying out of the D.C. housing market. After an abortive bid on one house, so am I. The market seems absolutely insane. Every economic analysis I’ve read (edit: not sponsored by the housing industry) suggests that housing prices in Northeastern markets are out of whack by every historical measure (compared to apartment […]

but House and Senate Republicans won’t play along.

Oliver Kamm writes: See if you can spot the non sequitur in this unhinged editorialising by the Middle East correspondent of the Church Times, the newspaper of the Church of England: The assassination of the Hamas leader, who was disabled, has intensified Arab anger over what is perceived as Israel’s arrogance — and its uncritical […]

Brian Leiter provides a handy chart, with the U.S. News top 40 law schools, faculty quality as determined by Leiter’s rather good survey of top law professors, LSAT at the 75th percentile (as a measure of student quality), and class size. Leiter notes that George Mason’s 165 75th percentile LSAT is based on a very […]

The New York Times reports. Thanks to Dan Schmutter for the pointer.

How Hollywood milks European governments, by RiShawn Biddle in the American Spectator: To see how Hollywood has turned Germany’s — and Europe’s — crusade against so-called American cultural imperialism to Tinseltown’s Titanic advantage, check out The Punisher, the action film based on a Marvel Comics comic book about a vigilante antihero. Featuring the raffish American […]

For all the talk, including by me, of the excessive weight given by prospective law students to U.S. News rankings, I heard a rankings story last Summer that was much worse than anything I’ve heard about prospective law students. I was chatting with a Yale Law student, and I asked him where Yale grads work […]

are apparently a biased, untrustworthy lot — but at least we can read. Empty Days begin its response to my legitimacy post this way: The Volokh Conspiracy (which is an all-jewish neocon outlet by its own admission) doesn’t understand how giving some international legitimacy to the Iraq war could improve things there. Oh, that’s what’s […]

Jon Rauch writes: On March 22, in Gaza, Israel shot a helicopter-fired missile at Yassin. Reaction was swift and scathing. The British condemned the attack as an “unlawful killing.” The European Union said that extrajudicial killings were “contrary to international law.” Turkey’s prime minister said, “This was a terrorism incident.” Most of the United Nations […]