Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol
Jack Balkin commits the Nirvana Fallacy
Jack M. Balkin, a liberal law professor at Yale, recently wrote an essay titled “How to regulate (and not regulate) social media.” (The full essay is available here, via the Journal of Free Speech Law.) Suffice it to say (for … Continue reading
Twitter Tuesday: fun game theory puzzle
Here is a link to the above Tweet; check out the full thread for various proposed solutions.
Monday mathematical puzzle
Check out this homage to the late great puzzle master Martin Gardner. Here is one of his mathematical puzzles: “Imagine heating a metal ring enough so it expands. What happens to the hole, does it get bigger or smaller?”
Sunday SLoG
SLoG stands for State & Local Government Law Blog, and this new legal blog is available for your edification here. You’re welcome! (Hat tip: Brian Leiter.)
Fall 2021 Syllabus
Once again, I am assigning the award-winning film “The Social Network,” along with episode 4 of “Tiger King,” in my business law survey course. (For your reference, see my Fall 2021 Syllabus, the first four pages of which are pictured … Continue reading
Taxonomy of Cubic Algebraic Curves
(a) Folium of Descartes, (b) Witch of Agnesi, (c) Cubical Parabola, (d) Semicubical Parabola, (e) Strophoid, and (f) Cissoid of Diocles
The Most Senile Justice?
That is the title of my 2007 paper on judicial senility, which I am showcasing today as part of my “Throwback Thursday” series in which I feature my most “vintage” scholarly works. As an aside, my four-page paper on “Senile … Continue reading
The Cuban Crackdown
That is the title of this report by Laura Tedesco and Rut Diamint, which was just published in Foreign Affairs. (Alas, annoyingly, the article is paywalled, but you can obtain a link to an ungated version of the article by … Continue reading
Tweets as novels
Originally posted on prior probability:
Credit: John Atkinson (hat tip: kottke)

