Should professors wear buttons endorsing candidates for public office while they teach their classes? Certainly not, says Stanley Fish on his blog.
George Lakoff uses his theory of semantics to analyze the message John McCain sent by choosing Sarah Palin as his running mate.
Juan Cole quotes a paper proposing Franklin Roosevelt’s “Good Neighbor” policy in Latin America as a model for the next president’s Middle East policy.
Labor economist George Borjas hasn’t updated his blog since August, but what’s there is still interesting.
University of Michigan linguist Sarah Thomason occasionally blogs under the screen-name “Sally Thomason.” The drawing at the top of the post is one of hers.



