Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Check out this beautiful essay by Jake Rossen, which is titled “The Enduring Mystery of the Oreo Cookie Design” (hat tip: @pickover).

Hello, fellow Earthlings! I now want to conclude my multi-part series on the problem of misinformation (see here, here, here, and here) by posing a simple rhetorical question: What’s so bad about misinformation and conspiracy theories and the like? After … Continue reading →

Is the marketplace of ideas broken? My colleagues David Pozen (Columbia), Yochai Benkler (Harvard), and Amy Kapczynsky (Yale) all seem to think so. I already dispatched Pozen and Benkler’s proposed cures — Pozen wants more big tech censorship (see here), … Continue reading →

Happy 2/2/22! Last week, I reviewed two of three essays published by the Knight First Amendment Institute on the marketplace of ideas, one by David Pozen; the other by Yochai Benkler. In summary, both Pozen and Benkler blame social media … Continue reading →

Happy Presidents’ Day (USA)! I will proceed with my series on the marketplace of ideas in my next post. In the meantime, I am re-posting this map of the settings of Shakespeare’s plays. (You may order the map here.)

Check out this excellent essay by Jesse Spector (via Deadspin). Here is an excerpt: “… the owners are trying to make every last penny available, and the lockout will end when they feel they’ve squeezed until they can squeeze no … Continue reading →

This provocative tweet from Celine Leboeuf (@philo_celine) popped up into my Twitter feed the other day, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since!

In my previous post, I critiqued David Pozen’s misguided critique of the marketplace of ideas. It turns out, however, that Pozen’s essay is just one of three contributions in a larger series of essays on the theme of “Lies and … Continue reading →

My colleague David Pozen, a law professor at Columbia University, recently wrote this essay on “the problem of lies and deception in the contemporary mass public sphere.” (Hat tip: Brian Leiter.) To the point, Professor Pozen critiques the “marketplace of … Continue reading →