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September 2008
Monday, September 29, 2008
I desired to order a volume from BarnesandNoble.com recently. BarnesandNoble.com, interestingly enough, is offering a promotion wherein any purchase totaling $25 or more receives free 3-business-day shipping. This promotion is quite poorly structured, you will…
Behold Woody Allen in New York magazine:New York: Do you have a theory about why the culture keeps getting coarser? Allen: The country has, over the years, moved to the right. And it’s possible that…
Dartblog readers probably know that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), where I serve as Vice President, regularly fights college and university administrations who seek to suppress or punish students who exercise fundamental…
This afternoon the House rejected the $700 million bailout plan. The measure faced stiff resistance from Republican and Democratic lawmakers who portrayed it as a rush to economic judgment and an undeserved aid package for…
A lengthy article, though well worth the read, in yesterday’s New York Times Magazine about the evolving role of judges in shaping US foreign policy. Sure, why not? Many judges already don’t have any scruples…
It happens, because of an acquaintance of mine, that I am something of a student of the internecine politics of Tufts University, the exponent of which is the university’s dreadful reputation on freedom of speech….
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October 18, 2009
When Love Beckoned in 52nd Street
We were at San Francisco’s BIX last evening, enjoying prosecco, cheese, and a bit of music. A full year of inhabitation in Northern California has unraveled to me no decent venue for proper lounging, but… -
October 9, 2009
D Afraid of a Little Competish
So our colleague and Dartblog writer Joe Asch informed me that the D has rejected our cunning advertising campaign. Uh-oh. The Dartmouth is widely known as a breeding ground for instant New York Times successes,… -
September 4, 2009
How Regents Should Reign
As Dartmouth alumni proceed through the legal hoops necessary to defuse a Board-packing plan—which put in unhappy desuetude an historic 1891 Agreement between alumni and the College guaranteeing a half-democratically-elected Board of Trustees—it strikes one… -
August 29, 2009
Election Reform Study Committee
If you are an alum of the College on the Hill, you may have received a number of e-mails of late beseeching your input for a new arm of the College’s Alumni Control Apparatus called… -
August 23, 2009
Fare Thee Well, Tom Crady
And now Dean Tom Crady has precipitously announced his departure from the College after only 20 months on the job. How to read this? By way of background, prior to coming to Dartmouth, Crady had… -
May 31, 2009
Kangaroo Court, Indeed
In an interview with The Dartmouth, alumni-elected trustee T.J. Rodgers ‘70 explained his reasons for declining to participate in future evaluations of trustees up for “re-election,” namely the “kangaroo court” nature of such discussion in…