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Redshirting: Holding kids back from kindergarten is bad gamesmanship
This past Sunday, 60 Minutes did a segment on academic redshirting, the practice of holding kindergarten age-eligible children back in order to allow extra time for socioemotional, intellectual, or...
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American Politics: Are We Still Playing the Same Game?
Of all the rhetoric that we have heard during this Republican primary, it is perhaps this comment from Rick Santorum that is the most perplexing: “President Obama once said he wants everybody in...
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Why Lance Armstrong isn’t the “Bernie Madoff of cycling”
On another blog, at the end of the summer, I spent far too much space trying to figure out what we should think about Lance Armstrong after his quasi-implicit-wink’n’nudge-pseudo-confession. That...
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Constructive Game-Over and What Makes Brannen Greene’s Dunk a “Dick Move”
A few weeks ago, Kansas University men’s basketball player Brannen Greene dunked the basketball just before time expired in a contest against rival Kansas State. Before the dunk, the KU Jayhawks...
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Mr Corbyn and parliamentary bloodsports
We count democratic politics on this blog as one of the Big Archetypical deliberately adversarial institutions. Power in the state is not given to a person or group who is carefully determined to be...
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“Reasonable disagreement” v. “beyond the pale”
Isak has begun a series of posts on this blog under the rubric “Upon Further Review.” He explains this project of gathering and analyzing the allegations of “fouls” on the campaign trail this winter...
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Alexander Hamilton and the Supreme Court nomination crisis
By now there is (probably) not a single person in the country who remains unaware of the impending, but also already incredibly intense, showdown over President Obama’s nomination of a new Supreme...
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Boaty McBoatface, Primaries, and the Illusion of Democratic Legitimacy
The internet seems to bring out the extreme tendencies of human groups. It can connect us over the greatest of distances and provide for the rapid spread of information — whether in the form of...
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Shredding the unwritten rulebook on the Tour de France
“Sticky bottle” Here’s a great case study on the phenomenon of “gentlemanly” unwritten rules in a sport. Several different examples; justified or criticized on different grounds; enforced in different...
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Ted Cruz and Zinedine Zidane on partisanship, team solidarity, and family honor
Ted Cruz gave a press conference the day after his keynote speech at the RNC, which had ended with a ringing non-endorsement of the party’s nominee, Donald Trump. Some in the audience were upset that...
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