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2016-03-19 18:53
Nigh is the time to switch your bookmarks.MA is the New BAI think I’ve complained about this trend before. MA programs are used to cull prospective students, without giving them resour… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
If you haven't switched over yet, do so now.Autonomy in the AcademyThe Brussels-based think tank, BRUEGEL, is rankling some feathers with its report on the performance of European universiti… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
To whom this may concern: Will an American president ever utter the phrase, “crimes committed in the name of the American people”? After an acrimonious election and faced with c… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I've thought about this for a while, perhaps too long, but I am joining the great blog migration and setting up in Wordpress over at some place I call Europe Endless. Like many migrations… Read More
2007-09-04 13:46
It’s been a while since a new addition of Hate Watch. The minor victories of neo-nazi parties in state in local elections were tempered with resolve by the major parties to shut them o… Read More
2007-08-31 15:12
It must be fall semester. I know because Jonathan Dresner burdens his students with my writing. Actually, it's a great syllabus that seeks to include students in conversations about histo… Read More
2007-08-30 23:22
It's not about the sex, it's about the public lewd behaviour. Sure, whatever. Larry Craig's misdemeanor has driven a lot of talk not just about sexual identities, but the practices of ho… Read More
2007-08-26 16:47
How times can Christiane Amanpour repeat the phrase "G-d's Warriors," either directly or in variation? What ought to have been compelling reportage on fundamentalism turned into a rhetorica… Read More
2007-08-19 14:24
In my previous post about Prof. Gregory Clark's forthcoming book, I set out several issues that I felt would disfavor a genetic cause of industrialization, whether cultural or biological… Read More
2007-08-19 14:23
Japanese workers are shorter and have smaller fingers. Thus, they are better suited to working with electronics than Americans. That’s what Crazy People taught me. Throw in somethin… Read More
2007-08-18 13:52
The Discoveries of America--yes, I'm putting it into the plural. It seems like everyone was there before Columbus, like the English and the Chinese before them. Of course, the first people… Read More
2007-08-15 16:32
Another article in Die Welt about a city reconstructing its pre-war city center. This time, it's Kaliningrad, currently a Russian city that was the capital of East Prussia. The website set… Read More
2007-08-15 04:41
Vilhelm Konnander's Weblog has an important post on the political turns of contemporary Poland:How to deal with the past, has become the central issue in Polish politics with the rise to pow… Read More
2007-08-14 17:24
From "The Sense of Place" by Wallace Stegner: But if every American is several people, and one of them is or, would like to be a placed person, another is the opposite, the displaced person… Read More
2007-08-12 04:11
If you have a lot of time and a settled stomach, check out Subtopia's interview of geographer Stephen Graham on the subject of military urbanism. Check out his comments about the nostalgia… Read More
2007-08-11 17:06
"The Downside of Diversity" discusses problematic findings from the research of Robert Putnam. The sociologist discovered that civic participation dropped in more diverse communities, thus… Read More
2007-08-10 16:18
I must rely on Alex Rodriguez to save baseball.Pipers dominate every Celtic session (my underpowered mando can't compete).The three leading candidates in the Democratic primary race have the… Read More
2007-08-08 16:27
Wonderful: a new home run record on par with the accomplishments of Louis Pasteur and the application of penicillin in medicine. Barry Bonds should be proud, even if his legend should be su… Read More
2007-06-27 03:23
The BBC offers this interactive map on the last fifty years of urban population growth, with a look at the next eight. HT: The Map Room Read More
2007-06-26 17:32
What's in a name? NPR reported last week on how the Polish government wants to change the name of Auschwitz in order to emphasize that it was a German camp, not a Polish camp. According to… Read More
2007-06-20 19:58
I spent much of the day working on a pamphlet by Wilhelm Kapp suggests an alternative vision of Alsatian regionalism, one which would allow Germans to mix into Alsatian society. Interesting… Read More

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