Vanity Fair published a very interesting story about Ross Ulbricht, the creator of Silk Road, a website on the dark web on which one could buy anything from drugs to a machine gun and even hire a hit man. As…
Comme d’habitude après une victoire du FN, on a droit aux mêmes inepties sur le retour des heures-les-plus-sombres-de-notre-histoire, le péril fasciste qui plane sur la France, etc. Donc ça fait plus de 30 ans qu’on leur fait le coup, mais de toute évidence, certains n’ont toujours…
I have written about CGSU before, when I was fighting against unionization, but they are back in the news. A few graduate students have recently published a column against Prof. David Collum in the Cornell Daily Sun, whom they accused…
A lot of people in the US, who often make the comparison with Brexit and Trump’s election, seem convinced that Le Pen can win the second round of the French presidential election against Macron in two weeks, but she really can’t and…
Macron s’est donc qualifié pour le second tour avec Le Pen et sera donc Président de la République dans quinze jours. En effet, même si l’on va essayer de vous faire peur, Le Pen n’a absolument aucune chance. Autant il…
Je sais que j’avais dit que mon billet sur l’élection serait le dernier avant le premier tour, mais je veux faire un dernier point sur la situation à quelques heures de l’élection et expliquer pourquoi je pense que Fillon est le…
Laura Kipnis, whose ordeal I mentioned recently, just published another piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education. She explains what she saw during the process that led to Peter Ludlow’s resignation from his job at Northwestern University and it’s pretty damning…
Comme vous l’avez sans doute remarqué, ça faisait un moment que je n’avais pas parlé de l’élection présidentielle française. La raison principale est que cette campagne a été un tel bordel qu’il était difficile de savoir ce qui allait se passer,…
I have been pretty sick this week and I have a lot of work, so I didn’t really have time to take care of the blog, but I wanted to let you know that I had started working on a follow-up to…
The word “entrée” is used to mean something like appetizer in France, yet in the US it’s used to mean something like “main dish”, i. e. pretty much the opposite. I have always been very puzzled by that, but Nora Matland…