Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

Source: Sheree via View from the Back (9/22) Most of us can only dream about where we’d like to visit next however I would encourage you to do more than just dream. Plan and prepare for when we … French … Continue reading →

Check out Jonathan Dancy’s short intellectual biography of the late great Derek Parfit (pictured below), an Anglo moral philosopher who developed a new field of “meta-ethics.” Here is an excerpt from Dancy’s tribute to Parfit: “But by the end of … Continue reading →

Source: Remember Singapore (9/21) When wealthy Indian cattle merchant Moona Kadir (Kader) Sultan (1863-1937) built his mansion Karikal Mahal at East Coast Road in 1917, it was one of … The Story of “The Cattle King” and his Karikal Mahal … Continue reading →

I described the game theory logic of “social dilemmas” or multi-player prisoners’ dilemmas in a previous post. In this follow-up post, let’s consider a specific example of a social dilemma: the problem of “climate change” or global warming. As the … Continue reading →

I had the great honor of meeting Ruth Bader Ginsburg on 29 May 2007, the day on which I officially joined the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). Some background: I was part of a small … Continue reading →

Imagine the following thought-experiment: suppose you are in my “Advanced Topics in Law” class and further suppose that I, your instructor, have posted the following “extra credit challenge” to the entire class: You can each earn some extra credit on … Continue reading →

Vote by mail at your own risk. According to this new empirical paper by Charles Stewart III, a professor of politics at MIT, approximately 1.4 million votes in 2016 were lost by mail or 4.0% of mail ballots cast and … Continue reading →

The Cato Institute’s annual Constitution Day Symposium begins today at 10:45AM (Eastern Time). Here is a link to today’s program. It is an excellent program because, despite its misleading title, its focus is not exclusively on the oracles of the … Continue reading →

On this day in 1787, the Founding Fathers of our country signed the proposed U.S. Constitution. (I say proposed because the Constitution was not officially ratified and did not become law until mid-1788.) To celebrate Constitution Day, which should be … Continue reading →