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October 2008
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The righteous indecision of the libertarian set does not, when the full gale-force of Obamism is considered, make much sense at all, writes Todd Zywicki….
Walk down the corridor of the second floor of Silsby Hall and amidst the mundane brown doors—the offices of the College’s economists—one calls out. It, unlike the others, is double-secured with a proximity-sensing card reader….
I don’t have a camera on me, but I am happy to report the first snow of the winter getting in just a few days shy of November. Well, if not real snow at least…
An editorial by Steven Calabresi, a law professor at Northwestern University, in the Wall Street Journal discusses Obama’s views on judicial appointments: “Empathy, not justice, ought to be the mission of the federal courts, and…
Google has cleared a major barrier to launching a project to put millions of books online. Copyright issues aside, what could be better than this kind of democratization of books and knowledge. I don’t think…
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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…