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30 Apr 2017, 2:50 pm
Additional Resources (from yours truly): Study Guide for IslamIslamic Studies bibliographyIslam & Muslims in the United States: a select bibliographyIslam & Democracy (an encyclopedia entry) Poetry & Islam(a published introductory essay)Book Review: Oliver Leaman’s Islamic Aesthetics: An Introduction (2004) (published inPhilosophy East and West) I also have several bibliographies that overlap somewhat with the above material:The Modern and Post-Modern Arab WorldThe… [read post]
30 Apr 2017, 11:42 am
Like the Sex Pistols, Parker suggests, Trump is out to “upend the culture” — but in this case it’s the culture of institutionalized political correctness and John Oliver explaining the news to you, forever.Trump’s extremism also limits his appeal, of course. [read post]
30 Apr 2017, 7:35 am
Gök Jami mosque of Yerevan, Armenia John Esposito on “Islam and Religious Pluralism”—This is an excellent introductory lecture (click on the title for the video) by one of this country’s foremost scholars on Islam that was filmed for UCTV at the Walter H. [read post]
26 Apr 2017, 4:38 pm
Yes, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. was confirmed on Roosevelt’s 81st day in office. [read post]
20 Apr 2017, 9:25 am
Stakeholders include those who may not be as well educated or experienced in that area (see John Oliver) but have a lot of power. [read post]
20 Apr 2017, 4:56 am
The late-night political-comedy shows—principally Noah’s Daily Show, Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal, and John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight—staked their territory during the heat of the general election: unwavering, bombastic, belittling, humiliating screeds against Donald Trump. [read post]
19 Apr 2017, 6:28 am
When John Oliver told viewers that if they opposed abortion they had to change the channel until the last minute of the program, when they would be shown “an adorable bucket of sloths,” he perfectly encapsulated the tone of these shows: one imbued with the conviction that they and their fans are intellectually and morally superior to those who espouse any of the beliefs of the political right. [read post]
19 Apr 2017, 1:45 am
Trump’s appearance with Fallon may mark a moment in our national story. [read post]
18 Apr 2017, 11:20 am
The law firm has brought E. coli lawsuits against such companies as Jack in the Box, Dole, ConAgra, Cargill, and Jimmy John’s. [read post]
11 Apr 2017, 4:44 am
I’ll let John Oliver explain only as he can. [read post]
10 Apr 2017, 2:46 pm
John Oliver reminds us of the cost of gerrymandering. [read post]
9 Apr 2017, 6:52 am
The overview included Tracy Smith on robots, John Blackstone on Jaclyn Smith, Barry Petersen on the pizza rat video, and Susan Spenser on stories of entrepreneurs.Meg Oliver did the news headlines and weather. [read post]
6 Apr 2017, 4:05 am
Washington received 69 votes, Adams had 34 votes, and John Jay led the runners-up with 9 votes. [read post]
1 Apr 2017, 1:10 pm
Lawfare readers are surely aware that on Thursday, the lawyer for former national security adviser Michael T. [read post]
22 Mar 2017, 9:02 pm
Before this year, the few of us who had heard of Mick Mulvaney knew only that he was one of the Republican Party’s most extreme anti-government ideologues, a leading Tea Partier who helped to force out John Boehner as Speaker of the House and who was willing to hold the debt ceiling hostage as a means to advance his reactionary agenda.Now, Mulvaney has been installed as Donald Trump’s budget director, and his job is to try to explain to the American people why Trump’s… [read post]
17 Mar 2017, 3:23 am
(Detail from the Cheshire cat vanishing in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland drawn by Sir John Tenniel) [read post]
11 Mar 2017, 11:00 pm
Long reviews Armitage’s book for Newsday.In the LARB, Brian Goodman reviews Timothy Garton Ash’s Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World and Josh Jacobs reviews John Pfaff’s Locked In: The True Causes of Mass Incarceration and How to Achieve Real Reform, which seeks to correct the “myth” that punishment of drug offenses and other nonviolent crimes, alone, caused mass incarceration. [read post]
9 Mar 2017, 8:15 am
They, and more recent comedians such as John Oliver, had and have great fun with the absurdities and pretensions of Fox News in particular, although they are deeply serious in their underlying purpose: to blow the whistle on bullshit of the type that Fox pours out daily. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 10:47 am
According to Douglas Ernst at the Washington Times, Oliver Mauricio Funes-Machada, was arrested in Pilot on Monday shortly after he called 911. [read post]
7 Mar 2017, 3:16 am
Lemley, Erik Oliver, Kent Richardson, James Yoon, & Michael Costa, Patent Purchases and Litigation Outcomes, 2016 Patently-O Patent Law Journal 15 (Lemley.2016.PatentMarket) Bernard Chao and Amy Mapes, An Early Look at Mayo’s Impact on Personalized Medicine, 2016 Patently-O Patent Law Journal 10 (Chao.2016.PersonalizedMedicine) James E. [read post]
