Should professors refuse to write letters of recommendation addressed to Israeli universities? One has just been punished for refusing.

Like Juan Cole, I support the boycott of products made by Israel in occupied Palestinian territory — started by Gush Shalom, which promoted it until Israel adopted a law to impose unlimited damages on anyone that advocates this boycott. I don't support the Palestinians' boycott of nearly all Israeli institutions, though I followed it in the speaking tour in which I was invited by Palestinians.

Palestinians point out that each university in Israel is directly involved in the occupation.

Yemen on Brink of 'World's Worst Famine in 100 Years' if War Continues.

The UK government is straining to avoid any substantial investigation into Russian meddling in the referendum about leaving the EU.

I suppose the fact that the government is committed to leaving has something to do with the unwillingness to investigate.

The bullshitter pledged a million dollars to the charity of Senator Warren's choice if she took a DNA test and it revealed indigenous American ancestry. She did, and it did. Will the bullshitter pay up?

The right wing used to attack leftist postmodernism for rejecting moral absolutes. Now the right-wing rejects the idea that there is any objective truth.

I think the term "scientific relativism" is inadequate to describe the bullshitter. I'd call it "Humpfty Drumpfty thinking" — "the truth is whatever I say it is".