Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

… to paraphrase FDR’s famous remark in response to Japan’s attack of Pearl Harbor. On this day in history, two months after Pearl Harbor and fearing the threat of military invasion on the West Coast, FDR signed Executive Order 9066 … Continue reading →

Check out this amazing tool from the Open Culture Syllabus Project, which contains a database of 7,292,573 college course syllabi and 1,138,841 of the most frequently assigned books and scholarly papers on those syllabi. (#1 is Strunk & White; “The … Continue reading →

Last night, my wife Sydjia and I saw the movie “Judas and the Black Messiah,” which tells the story of how the FBI and Chicago police assassinated Fred Hampton, the charismatic leader of the Chicago chapter of the Black Panther … Continue reading →

A strong case can be made that “ethnic cleansing” began in the USA. Exhibit A: The Indian Removal Act of 1830.

“The personal library of retired John Hopkins University Humanities professor Richard A. Macksey, housed in his home.” Check out the full thread here, via Twitter. Hat tip: @DrLindseyFitz. Also, thanks to Sheree, whose ViewFromTheBack blog is one of my faves, … Continue reading →

What if Texas were to split up into five smaller States? This scenario, though it may sound strange–outlandish even–, is not that far-fetched; see, for example, this thought-provoking paper “Let’s Mess with Texas” by Vasan Kesavan (an independent scholar) and … Continue reading →

Remember Brady Sluder? He was the spring breaker from Ohio who famously said, “If I get corona, I get corona. At the end of the day, I’m not going to let it stop me from partying …” Sluder was lambasted … Continue reading →

Alternative Title: “That’s all folks!” Thus far, I have devoted several blog posts (seven separate posts in all!) to the substance of Ryan Patrick Hanley’s new book on Adam Smith: Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life … Continue reading →

In honor of Saint Valentine’s Day and Adam Smith, I am re-posting a link to my paper “Adam Smith in Love.” (See here.) I will be uploading a significantly-revised version of the paper soon, but in the meantime, immediately below … Continue reading →

Alternative title: Are Smith’s “impartial spectator” and his “wise and virtuous man” the same person? In my previous post, I summarized Ryan Patrick Hanley’s portrait of Smith’s wise and virtuous man, and I also criticized Hanley’s portrait as implausible and … Continue reading →