Happy Easter! I put aside “Infinite Jest” during Holy Week in order to begin reading “Natural Law and Natural Rights,” a classic that I have been meaning to crack open for many years now. (The author of this erudite tome, the Australian legal philosopher John Finnis, is pictured below.) If you are fascinated by such timeless questions as “What is law?” or “What is the relation between law and morality?,” then stay tuned in, for I will restate and review some of the most salient ideas from Professor Finnis’s beautiful (but as we shall see, deeply flawed) book in my next few posts …