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I've been getting a flurry of hits recently from this Metafilter thread, where folks are offering up my blog as an exemplar of how to t...

Tablet Magazine invited me to write an essay on the "Jews Lose" doctrine I wrote about previously on this blog. It's obviou...

I had a lovely conversation with some of my students yesterday during office hours. It was quite wide-ranging, but one thing we talked about...

Three episodes into Downton Abbey this season, and I have come to the conclusion that I have greatly wronged Cora in my heart. I had always ...

This morning, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Jesinoski v. Countrywide Home Loans , involving the exercise of a borrower's ...

I posted on Facebook, though not on the blog, about Kirby Delauter , the Frederick County councilman who became an internet sensation when h...

A few days ago, there was a bombing at a Colorado NAACP branch office . Some folks noted that this event seemed undercovered in the news med...

I got my hands on a copy of Didi Herman's An Unfortunate Coincidence: Jews, Jewishness, and English Law ( referenced in this post ). It...

Check out this neat bit of correspondence between W.E.B. Du Bois and Albert Einstein. Du Bois was already familiar with Einstein's repu...

A new year, a new roundup. For whatever reason, a bunch of really interesting articles popped up today, and I just don't have time to gi...

Vox reports on an interesting new study in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology suggesting that people see "black" Amer...

The other day, the chief of Pittsburgh's Police was photographed holding a poster saying "I resolve to challenge racism @ work. En...

I'm back from my New Year's travels, and what does my browser greet me with but this chariming story about Israelis settlers peltin...

On Twitter, Northwestern Law Professor Eugene Kontorovich states that he was among the victims of a string of incidents where anti-Semitic ...

Discourse about discourse about Israel -- a play in four acts . ACT I : PENN STUDENTS: Mr. Hedges, you write about the Middle East! We wou...

Kevin Drum offers a theory that the internet drives increases of cognitive inequality . Put simply, "the internet makes dumb people dum...

I have periodically remarked upon the "Jews lose" attribute of American free exercise doctrine -- namely, that across the entire ...

Bender: Isn't it time you gave up all hope of ever improving yourself in any way? Fry: I know I should but I just can't. Another...

Noting several recent appointees to the California Supreme Court who seem like potential future SCOTUS nomineees, Orin Kerr asks why we don...

The "execution-style" killing of two NYPD police officers , apparently in retaliation for the Eric Garner and Michael Brown killin...