POSTED BY MARTIN KICH “So [Trump’s] announcing, ‘Hey, I’ve got my own internal polling showing I’m ahead in Ohio by seven points; showing I’m ahead in Pennsylvania by about 10 points; showing I’m ahead in Florida in some internal polls by 15.’ And these are real random polls, showing in some polls Trump is three…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH What follows is taken from Vox’s daily newsletter Sentences: “Student Union” Gets a Whole New Meaning –The National Labor Relations Board ruled on Tuesday that graduate students at private universities have the right to form unions and bargain collectively. [Vox / Libby Nelson] –The decision doesn’t affect grad students at public universities. Those…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH Anna Valero and John Van Reenen, both of the London School of Economics, have published one of the first studies to examine the impact of universities on national and regional growth, both within nations and across national borders. This is the abstract of their paper: “We develop a new dataset using…
BY MARTIN KICH The New York Times has reported that “companies belonging to Donald Trump have at least $650 million in debt, more than twice the amount shown in public filings made by his presidential campaign”: “The paper employed a property information firm to search publicly available data on more than 30 US properties connected…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH “Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH According to a Public Policy Polling survey released on August 16, Donald Trump holds a relatively narrow 6-point lead over Hillary Clinton in Texas built on his strength with white and older voters. Trump leads Clinton with 50 percent to her 44 percent, according to the poll of 944 likely voters…
POSTED BY MARTIN KICH In terms of its impact on higher education, a major feature of the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act was to be “an outright ban on extremist speakers, including non-violent extremists, . . . on university campuses” (Travis). Home Secretary Theresa May proposed that such a ban be “backed by contempt of court…
BY MARTIN KICH Hammett, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon. New York: Knopf, 1930. Dashiell Hammett’s The Maltese Falcon was not the first hardboiled detective novel. That distinction is commonly accorded to John Daly’s first Race Williams novel, Knights of the Open Palm (1923). But The Maltese Falcon and its film adaptation gave the sub-genre international exposure…