Infinite Loathing

I wanted to write about why the couple that crashed the President’s first state dinner should be strung up and publicly flogged for days on end. But editorial rejected it because they wanted to me write something about the LSAT. So then I offered to write an analysis of why our failure to punish a [...]

Okay, so I’m not the first to get to this. Or the second. In fact, it kind of feels like everyone I know or read on the internet has commented on the NYT piece about the guy who was denied admission to the New York bar because he had too much debt. But it’s very [...]

I’m tired of talking about this, so I can only imagine how tired your must be of hearing about it. In my first post on this subject I argued that the USNWR rankings use LSAT scores in a way that is inappropriately self-reinforcing. In my second post, I argued that the use of lawyers’ and [...]

In my last post , I bemoaned USNWR’s law school rankings as being performative rather than merely descriptive; that is, I claimed that the rankings create and reinforce a hierarchy of law schools, rather than merely tracking an independently established hierarchy. I’m going to do more of the same here, but now I want to [...]

Every year when the U.S. News and World Report (hereafter USNWR) ranking of law schools comes out, I’m annoyed. Not just watered down drink, cold entree, stain on your new shirt annoyed either, but deeply existentially troubled. Riley just wrote a piece about the USNWR rankings and, in doing so, he brought it all back. [...]

A recent article in a well established literary magazine examined the emergence of “smart drugs”, pharmaceuticals that are being self-prescribed by people seeking cognitive enhancement. This practice has been seen among students at prestigious undergraduate universities in this country, as well as in some highly competitive professional endeavors (ranging from scientists to poker players). It [...]