Author Archives: F. E. Guerra-Pujol
Gödel’s loophole and the January 6 dictatorship (Yugoslavia, January 1929)
Below is the next installment of my paper “Gödel’s Interbellum” (revised draft, 2023); footnotes below the fold: I will begin my survey with the self-coup of January 6, 1929, when King Aleksandar of Yugoslavia unilaterally abrogated his country’s constitution and … Continue reading
PSA: the censure of Congresswoman Tlaib is unamerican
I am interrupting my series of blog posts on the demise of Central European democracies during the interwar period to make the following statement: last night’s censure of Representative Rashida Tlaib is unamerican. Simply put, although I stand with Israel, … Continue reading
Another excerpt from *Gödel’s Interbellum*
Interwar Europe through the Eyes of Kurt Gödel Although the story of Kurt Gödel’s discovery in late 1947 of a logical contradiction in the United States Constitution has been retold many times, the content of this discovery is often discounted … Continue reading
Preview of *Gödel’s Interbellum*
Below is the introduction to my paper “Gödel’s Interbellum: Interwar Europe through the Eyes of Kurt Gödel” (footnotes omitted; emphasis added): “One of the great unsolved mysteries of constitutional law is ‘Gödel’s loophole‘. In brief, the great logician Kurt Gödel … Continue reading
Prequel to *Gödel’s Loophole*
My most downloaded work of all time, Gödel’s Loophole, describes the logician Kurt Gödel’s discovery of a logical contradiction in the United States Constitution, a discovery he reportedly made while he was studying for his U.S. citizenship exam in 1947. … Continue reading
GUILTY!
My colleague Dan Markel was murdered in his own home in Tallahassee, Florida on 18 July 2014. Yesterday, a jury found Markel’s brother-in-law, Charlie Adelson, guilty of conspiring to murder Markel. Wendi Adelson, you’re next! One of the things we … Continue reading
Monday map: *Political Divisions of the Indian Empire* (circa 1909)
Demolition of Redhill Close
I am reblogging this recent post “Redhill Close SIT Estate Walks into History” from one of my favorite specialty blogs, Remember Singapore: By October 2023, a large part of Redhill Close estate has been bulldozed, with only a couple of … Continue reading

