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Will Baude plays wordless classical and jazz music during his Drezner exam and says: Some of my music-loving friends are baffled by this ability to not hear what’s on; they love music so they can’t just ignore it and let it be helpful background noise. [This isn’t to say that I don’t love music, but […]

In addition to the bloggers Tyler lists below, the list also has John Grisham at #103, Nathaniel Hawthorne at #104, Jane Austen at #105, our own Jacob Levy at #130, Tyler on this site at #151, and myself at #200.

I’ll be speaking tonight at 7:00 pm at Emory University, White Hall, Room 111 on “Suppressing Campus Speech: The Use of Hostile Education Environment Rules to Stifle Unpopular Opinions,” sponsored by the Georgia Association of Scholars through the generosity of the McClatchey Foundation. Free and open to the public.

From the Montreal Gazette: “Anti-Zionism is no longer an exotic collection of radical chic slogans that somehow survived the debacle of late 1960s counter-culture. It has become an exterminationist, pseudo-redemptive ideology in the Middle East which has been re-exported to Europe with devastating effect.” Read the whole thing.

So my draft of Crime Severity and Constitutional Line-Drawing is now done, and sent out to the law reviews. Glad to have that out of my hair; on to the other projects. Note, though, that there are still many months before publication — if you have any comments on the piece (it’s a manageable 20 […]

Instapundit doesn’t believe the Boston Globe reporter, who, according to Drudge, now says that Kerry claimed that “more leaders,” not “foreign leaders,” supported him. Whatever. In context, the “more leaders” clearly referred to foreign leaders:KERRY: “I’ve been hearing it, I’ll tell ya. The news, the coverage in other countries, the news in other places. I’ve […]

According to Ha’aretz, Arafat’s cabinet wants to act against breakaway factions of the Fatah movement that are engaging in freelance terrorism in combination with Hamas. Arafat refuses to countenance such action. If Debka is correct, this is because Arafat favors this terrorism. It’s been clear for years that Arafat is the main obstacle to peace […]

Here is the link. Eugene is number six, check also for yours truly at #32. What is the measure?: “This list is generated by counting unique references to articles and posts authored in the last 60 days.”

The film is opening in Syria and Lebanon on March 17. In Lebanon the initial run of three prints has been extended to twelve, following an unprecedented show of interest. Some observers are predicting that attendance will break all previous records in the country. Some closed-down moviehouses are looking to reopen to show the picture. […]

hear this excerpt, from about 1:45 into the audio file to about 2:00 into it (thanks to reader Henry Hanks for the pointer). “You ask me if I’ve met with any leaders. Yes, I –[audience noise] — I have had conversations with leaders.” “Yes, recently.” [Question: “How recently?”] “That’s not your business, that’s mine.”      Appalling.

Responding to my post this morning Jews are the canary in the coal mine of civilization about Jeff Jacoby’s column The cancer of anti-Semitism in Europe, a colleague writes: I commend you for your post . . . regarding rising anti-Semitism in Europe, a fact that too many want to sweep under the rug. Unfortunately, […]

The San Francisco Chronicle has decided that two women who got married can no longer cover “the same-sex-marriage story.” I saw this via Tim Graham at the Corner, who headlines the post “lesbian media ethics and rolls his eyes about ‘liberal hand-wringing’ but doesn’t indicate whether he thinks there’s a genuine conflict of interest here […]

“Motion Induced Blindness.” (To confirm that the yellow dots are really there all the time, just cover two of the yellow dots and the flashing green dot with your hand, and look only at the remaining yellow dot — it’ll stay there indefinitely.) Thanks to Paul Hsieh of GeekPress, who has some more on this […]

Cathy Seipp puts it well: On Friday Ruth Seymour asked Sandra Tsing Loh to return to KCRW — in her old plum drivetime slot too, not the early Sunday morning graveyard she’d been banished to these past few months — but was turned down. This came as no surprise to me. Suggestion to anyone in […]

Jon Roland has uncovered that the “Karate experts must register their hands and feet as deadly weapons” line — which I had assumed was generally a joke, but if taken seriously has been debunked as an urban legend — is actually true in at least one place: Guam. Here’s 10 Guam Code Ann. sec. 62100: […]