Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

According to this report, a Republican State Senator by the name of Jason Brodeur (pictured below next to the swastica symbol), who represents Lake Mary in Central Florida, has drafted a draconian bill (see here) that would require bloggers who … Continue reading →

I wish every profession were organized like Major League Baseball: spring training (February and March), the regular season (April to September), the playoffs (October), and the off-season or winter break (November to January). In any case, I will take a … Continue reading →

With this post I shall bring my chapter-by-chapter review of Rule of Law by Tom Bingham to a close. In the epilogue to his book, Judge Bingham concludes by describing “The Allegory of Good Government” (pictured in part above), a … Continue reading →

The last chapter of Tom Bingham’s book Rule of Law (Chapter 12) explores a fascinating constitutional anomaly, at least in Britain where the Parliament is the ultimate sovereign. On the one hand, the rule of law at a minimum means … Continue reading →

I am lumping together my review of Chapters 9, 10, and 11 of Rule of Law by Tom Bingham because all three chapters deal with one aspect or another of today’s post-9/11 world, a world in which the rule of … Continue reading →

Since 20 January (see here), I have reviewed in fits and starts the first half of Rule of Law by Tom Bingham (Chs. 1 to 7). This weekend, I will try to bring this project to a close by reviewing … Continue reading →

My previous Posner post was devoted to my accidental discovery of Richard A. Posner’s Law and Literature: A Misunderstood Relation in December of 2000 and how this tome radically altered my negative Posnerian priors. For me, the most memorable part … Continue reading →

On this day (2 March) in 1824, the Supreme Court of the United States announced its landmark decision in Gibbons v. Ogden (see also here), which forbade States from enacting protectionist legislation, i.e. local laws that interfere with the power … Continue reading →

Originally posted on prior probability:
Check out this excellent essay by Tom McTague, a London-based staff writer at The Atlantic. Among other things, McTague compares and contrasts the bravery of Ukraine with the shameful and calculating cowardice of her pusillanimous…