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A Colleague of Laura’s in Pompeii Once upon a time, I was an archaeologist. That’s right, I, Laura Evans, once dug up the pre-eruption layers of ancient Pompeii, sifted through soil and muck in...
Reminder! Monday, May 24, Marci Hamilton LIVE on Twitter from 8:00pm-9:00pm @AbuseStoppers – talking about the Stop Abuse Campaign, Statute of Limitations reform, and Justice Denied: What America...
“I’m strictly a journalist.” – Martin Gardner Martin Gardner had no formal mathematical training. A newspaper reporter, publicist, freelancer for Esquire, caseworker, magician, skeptic, Navy sailor,...
Marci Hamilton of the Cardozo School of Law has joined forces with the Stop Abuse Campaign to promote the passage of the Child Victims Act of New York (A02596) before the end of the state’s session...
On Wednesday, President Obama hosted his second State Dinner at the White House, honoring Mexico’s President Felipe Calderón. Prior to the engagement, Obama and Calderón held a joint press availability...
From Copenhagen to ClimateGate, the context and controversy surrounding any discussion of global warming has proven a significant handicap. This week, a group of distinguished climate scientists, economists,...
The Gulf oil spill and the West Virginia mine explosion are two of the biggest tragedies in our recent history. Isn’t it interesting, then, that they share one highly combustible causal factor? Craig...
‘Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography‘ by Julian Young in The New York Times Book Review: Whether we acknowledge it or not, we continue to live within the intellectual shadow cast...
First published in 1486–7, the Malleus Maleficarum (Latin for “The Hammer of Witches”) is the standard medieval text on witchcraft. A famous treatise, it attempted to systematically define and...
Robert E. McGlone, author of John Brown’s War Against Slavery, was a finalist for this year’s Lincoln Prize! Listen to his musings on “The Public Eye” with Al Vuona… Read More ?
We are defined by our preferences. But how do we arrive at those preferences, and how do we get what we want? Rachel Karniol, author of Social Development as Preference Management: How Infants, Children, and Parents Get What They Want from One Another, gives a glimpse into the power dynamics between children and parents - and the complex process of negotiation that goes into expressing one's wishes.
While the Gulf oil slick worsens, still spilling from a capsized wellhead and pressing ever closer to coastline towns, the blame game has exploded across the public sphere. Craig Collins, author of Toxic Loopholes: Failures and Future Prospects for Environmental Law, weighs in on the politicking to offer his vision of why this crisis demands a reconsideration of America’s heavy reliance on petroleum – economically, environmentally, and morally.
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