Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

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 →

That is the name of this fascinating guessing game that I stumbled upon as I was reading “The Biggest Bluff” by Maria Konnikova. This game was invented in the early 2000s by two poker players, Antonio Esfandiari and Phil Laak. … Continue reading →

Via Tumblr (circa 2014, emphasis added): “Last Man … is a game of deliberate media/knowledge avoidance, invented by … Kyle Whelliston. Its full name is ‘Last Man in America to Know Who Won the Super Bowl‘.” The official rules of … Continue reading →