The Other Blog

The Other Blog

I finally commented on my forthcoming book about the troubles of the public university, but it's on my other blog. What the hell - the university book is about the undeclared cold war on the mass middle-class (the whole bottom 80% or so), so this won't be the last cross-blog collisio...

Duke Lacrosse Revisited

Duke Lacrosse Revisited

This is the story that wouldn't die. If you've completely missed this one, don't start now, so I won't fill you in. But notable events of the last 12 months include:rape charges against the Duke Lacrosse team players were dropped almost exactly a year ago, at the end of December 2006. North Carolina's attorney general threw out all remaining charges in April 2007.the county...