History gods Manning Marable and Eric Foner talked to racist Rob Corddry on last night’s special race episode of The Daily Show. Though the profs are on-screen for a combined two minutes, there are major revelations: namely, Marable is not white and Foner comes from Jews. Did someone call an exterminator? Because the wasps are […]

“So colonial America’s two greatest exports were sugar, which destroys your teeth, and tobacco, which kills you. Thanks.” –Trademark Eric Foner digression in lecture today. Just don’t get him started on The Great Boston Molasses Massacre.

It’s academia’s equivalent to The 50 Most Beautiful People. And it’s put out by that most discerning of polemicists, David Horowitz. With all the appropriate pageantry, he presents us withThe 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America. Danger is sexy! And guess what? Columbia is the sexiest! Nine of the Dr. Dangers teach at Columbia. Eric […]

In which the Bwog apologizes for getting a couple facts wrong: – In the February issue, Brendan Ballou wrote that “Rebel With Uranium” Ken Hechtman and his merry band of anarchists “were the first to reach the Low Library roof, and as far as we know, the last.” Correction: They were not the last. – […]