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The Great GOP Identity Search
In the wake of the great Republican defeat (and despite the distraction of the Petraeus Affair) pols and pundits continue to offer advice to the Republican Party as to how it might reform itself in...
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Mayan End of the World Canceled (A Brazenandtenured Exclusive)
Apparently, through some rather incredible and oddly parallel set of mistakes, the ending of the world will not happen on December 21st. Instead, it appears the world has already ended on November...
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Gun Culture, Part 2
The national spotlight is on Colorado, where Governor John Hickenlooper, a moderate democrat, has endorsed the idea of tightening gun control regulations. Hickenlooper and members of the...
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Facts (The)
These little items are trouble. Let me state right off that I have not always been on entirely friendly terms with “the facts.” We have had a long and, at times, uneasy relation. Things took a bad...
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The New Normal
So is this the New Normal? The question gets asked about lots of things—Washington politics, the economy, terrorism, infrastructure, the financial markets. And the question gets asked anxiously...
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The Anthropocene: Everything and Nothing New
We have been kind of quiet here at brazenandtenured. Maybe it’s better that way. A friend of mine once disclosed that his goal as a professor was to write as little as possible as well as possible....
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Travels in America, Part One
I was on the Atlanta-Greensboro leg of a trip to Wake Forest University for a conference on Law and Violence. The man seated next to me and I struck up a conversation, starting with the usual small...
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Earth Day, Dog Whistles, and Zero Sum Politics
The Supreme Court’s decision today in Schuette v. Bamn would seem to have little to do with Earth Day. The Court, in a fractured majority decision, upheld Michigan’s voter-enacted ban on race based...
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Dear Black People, Part Two
Nine African Americans—a beloved pastor, a track coach, and a grandmother among them—were murdered by a White racist who, in his own words, hoped to spark a civil war and get his country back. It is...
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American Absurd
(Pre-order from Amazon)Filed under: Experimental, Nature/Culture, Politics, Uncategorized Tagged: absurd, academia, culture, law, politics
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