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View More NewsOn June 12, 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman were murdered. Five days later, O.J. Simpson took the LAPD on a low-speed car chase in a Ford Bronco. At the time, I was almost ten years old. All I remember about the initial crime was that the car chase coincided with the NBA Finals Game. The New York Knicks were playing against the Houston Rockets. I remember asking my parents who O.J. Simpson was. I had never heard of O.J. Simpson the football player, though I knew his character from the classic Naked Gun trilogy. (Don’t even get me…
NA President Donald Trump is trying to force states to severely curtail mail voting for the fall election by requiring the US Postal Service to reject mail ballots unless states meet a various onerous requirements. This plan is an affront to both federalism and the separation of powers. The Constitution grants state governments default authority over election administration, subject to override by Congress, when it comes to procedural rules for federal elections. Trump is seeking to usurp these powers. Numerous state governments and private organizations challenged Trump’s order in court. The Supreme Court overturned an initial district court temporary restraining…
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What follows is an excerpt from Advocacy in Literary Studies, a report published earlier this month under the auspices of the Vanderbilt–WashU Commission on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. Its Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences was published in April and excerpted in Quillette.Mathematicians and physicists typically do not instruct students in the history of their disciplines. What is old is outdated. That is not true of great literature. As nineteenth-century British essayist William Hazlitt pointed out in his essay Why the Arts Are Not Progressive?,…
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