29 Jan 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Colleges and Universities, Conservatism, Conservatives, Democrats, Global Warming, Health Care Reform, J.D. Salinger, J.D. Salinger, Kings College London, Libertarianism, Libertarians, Louis Auchincloss, Obituaries, Obituaries, Osama bin Laden, Osama bin Ladin, Paleography
Osama is a warmist. I guess that figures.
Bad news for literature. Patrician Louis Auchincloss dies at 92 (WaPo obit), and Zen recluse J.D. Salinger passed away at 91 (London Times obit).
Bad news for scholarship. King’s College London is planning to eliminate Britain’s only chair in paleography. No money in that, you see.
Why so few conservative or libertarian academics? Two researchers propose “path dependence” as the explanation.
Five stages of democrat grief over the health care reform bill.
