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March 29, 2011

Diversity Mania in Law Schools

George Leef

This Chronicle article covers a recent symposium on that most horrific of problems, an inadequate level of diversity. The focus of this particular symposium was insufficient diversity in the legal p......

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March 29, 2011

Unnatural Selection

Peter Wood

Peter Wood comments on a new study claiming that self-selection by liberal students explains the leftward tilt of academe.

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March 29, 2011

A Flawed Experiment

Peter Wood

Peter Wood comments on a study that looked for political bias in graduate schools

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March 28, 2011

Is the Internet a Mad, Hallucinating Deity?

David Clemens

In “The Library of Babel,” Jorge Luis Borges imagines a gargantuan Library in which are shelved books that together exhaust all possible combinations of letters.  Obviously, “[f......

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March 28, 2011

William Cronon's Partisan Bloviation

Mitchell Langbert

The University of Wisconsin's Professor William Cronon has involved himself in a partisan Wisconsin battle concerning public employees' bargaining. In his blog he bloviates against the Repub......

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