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( Via Jonathan Chait's "Life in Ohio, a Continuing Series.")

Jesmyn Ward , originally of De Lisle, Mississippi, has a new novel set on our Gulf Coast during Katrina, Salvage the Bones . And Patricia...

The Summer 2011 issue of the Mississippi Law Journal has an article by Lawrence Rosenthal, "Those Who Can’t, Teach: What the Legal Car...

It was contended, in that case, just as here, that such an undertaking would be a complete departure from the concept of the forefathers and...

Some Jewish donors are telling fundraisers for Mitt Romney that while they like him, they'd rather open their wallets for the "Jewi...

The New Jersey Supreme Court is revamping the admissibility of eyewitness identifications in criminal trials . The decision is here ; remark...

1 shot whiskey, 1 shot lemon juice, 1 shot simple syrup, over ice. Simple & effective.

Toby Wilkinson, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt : It is weirdly difficult to go to the bookstore and find a narrative history of Egypt fr...

Eugene Volokh posts on a prosecution in Saudi Arabia, where a critic of a religious figure posted numerous negative remarks on Twitter, blo...

What a bitch of a thing prose is! It is never finished; there is always something to be done over. -- Flaubert to Louise Colet, 1852 I...

So, what is that thing that one alternately praises or disparages, depending on whether it agrees with one's client's position -- an...

TBA has been wrapped up in the day job lately, filing 3 briefs in 2 weeks. As loyal readers will recall , the vices of Times New Roman have ...

If you haven't had the opportunity lately to wax curmudgeonly on the meretricious cultural tastes of the hoi polloi, this NPR readers...

In Texas we teach both creationism and evolution, because I figure you’re smart enough to figure out which one’s right. -- Gov. Rick Perry ,...

JJ reports that the author of The Help has won a defense verdict before Judge Green in Hinds Circuit Court, obtaining dismissal of the law...