Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol

We’re taking a couple weeks off for spring break (March 12-26), but in the meantime, we want to share the following idea with our loyal and patient readers. Our friend and colleague Tyler Cowen (via Marginal Revolution) gave us the … Continue reading →

Our friend and colleague Dale Whittaker was appointed president of the University of Central Florida (UCF) on March 9. We wish Dr Whittaker the best; we will miss our outgoing president, the legendary John Hitt.

Via Cliff Pickover: “If we are all ten different people depending on lighting, what are the implications for eyewitness testimonies in a court of law? http://bit.ly/1L1GY3k “

The great medieval scholar Thomas Aquinas, father of modern natural law theory, died on this day in 1274.

Russell Hardin (1999, pp. 88-89) gives three reasons why a constitution is NOT like a contract. First, according to Hardin, a constitution is designed to create a government for a large group of people; a contract, by contrast, is designed … Continue reading →

Welcome to our eclectic scholarly jungle! Our Spring Break is still a week away, but here is what we’ve been reading or rereading or will start reading over our break: Unwritten Rules, an essay by Stephen Sniderman. Fides et Ratio … Continue reading →

As Daddy Yankee raps in the Spanish version of Camila Cabello’s beautiful song Havana: la libertad que bien te sabe! According to Wikipedia, copyleft is the Internet-era practice of allowing people the right to freely distribute copies and modified versions … Continue reading →

That is the title of our first submission to The Journal of Brief Ideas. In brief (pun intended), The Journal of Brief Ideas is an open access scholarly digest of micro papers that set forth new ideas in 200 words … Continue reading →