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January 27, 2011

Reassembling Shakespeare's Fair Friend

Peter Wood

Did Shakespeare encode the name of his fair friend in his Sonnets?

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January 26, 2011

Law School -- Not Just Oversold, But Deceptively Oversold

George Leef

In today’s Pope Center Clarion Call, I comment on the recent, wonderfully iconoclastic New York Times piece on law schools. Students are lured into law school in much the same way they’r......

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January 26, 2011

Ask a Scholar: Pericope and Chiasm

Todd D. Moore

Can there be more than one chiasm (a pattern of concentric parallelism) in a pericope (a paragraph, episode, or story)?

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January 25, 2011

The Ideological Tilt of Harvard University Press

George Leef

The Econ Journal Watch categorizes ten years of titles from Harvard University Press, first culling out all those that have no philosophical angle, then categorizing the remaining books.

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January 25, 2011

Diversity, Texas Style

Glenn Ricketts

KC Johnson and Charlotte Allen provide some useful analysis of the Fifth Circuit's appeals level decision upholding the the race-based admissions policies of the University of Texas, Austin. 

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