Shirley Sherrod’s Defamation Suit
As some will recall, this past summer I argued that Shirley Sherrod would be ill-advised to file suit against Andrew Breitbart for defamation, largely on the grounds that, wherever my sympathies may lie, “her...
Daily Archive: February 14, 2011
The Second Ordinary Blog
A little while ago we rolled out our first hosted blog, Not a Potted Plant by Burt Likko. I’d like to welcome our second Ordinary Blogger, Alex Knapp who will be blogging at A...
Pigford: A Tragedy and a Non-Troversy
[UPDATED] Conor Friedersdorf points to a pay-wall blocked piece by Daniel Foster in National Review on the recently-passed “Pigford II” legislation. This story, of course, is largely being driven by Andrew Breitbart’s reporting, which...
For the Humanities, a Table of Doom
At this year’s Society for French Historical Studies (SFHS) conference in Charleston, South Carolina, there was a roundtable discussion entitled, “A Call to Action: The Present and Future of French History and the Humanities”,...
