ANOTHER UPDATE Story here. (A "go fund me" campaign for his legal fees has been started here.) "Fuck Landry" and "fuck Trump" are admirable sentiments, but it's not clear they ...

I've been periodically announcing open access books, sometimes in the Cambridge Elements series, where books are available for free for a couple of weeks or a month upon publication, and sometimes ...

MOVING TO FRONT FROM YESTERDAY--UPDATED Story here.. (A "go fund me" campaign for his legal fees has been started here.) "Fuck Landry" and "fuck Trump" are admirable sentiments, but it's not clear ...

That may be changing. Rioters who assaulted police officers at the Capitol have called for politicians who oppose Mr. Trump to be hanged, declared that “there will be blood,” and that “I plan on ...

This is an apt analysis. The biggest risk is putting the security apparatuses, like the FBI (Patel) and military (Hegseth), under the nominal control (let us hope it is only nominal) of sick ...

MOVING TO FRONT FROM JANUARY 7--UPDATED I was sorry to learn that Professor Wolff died last night. He was, of course, well-known to readers of this blog for his many trenchant insights into ...

As of this writing, the United States Health and Human Services is still under a communications embargo. Agencies such as the CDC, NIH, FDA and 10 others remain unable to communicate to the ...

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MOVING TO FRONT, ORIGINALLY POSTED DECEMBER 4 The full ad (and application links) are here.. Here's the basic description (please note the Workshop theme, it's essential that the candidate be able to ...

Talk about craven cowardice: Harvard Medical School canceled a planned Jan. 21 lecture on wartime healthcare and a subsequent panel with patients from Gaza receiving care in Boston in response to ...