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That the was the theme of an engaging discussion I attended on Saturday morning at the annual meeting of law professors in Washington, D.C. This four-hour marathon panel featured two living academic legends, Jack Balkin (Yale) and Randy Barnett (Georgetown), … Continue reading →

Don’t throw out your Christmas tree just yet: today (6 January) is the Feast of Epiphany or “Three Kings Day”! (See also here.) For my part, I will spend the first part of the day attending a special extended session … Continue reading →

What is Gödel’s loophole, and why is this puzzle relevant to our times? I will be addressing these questions when I present my work-in-progress Gödel’s Interbellum at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools in Washington, D.C. … Continue reading →

For your refernce, below are links to my five-part review of Paul Sagar’s Adam Smith Reconsidered: History, Liberty, and the Foundations of Modern Politics (Princeton University Press, 2022): 1. The Real Das Adam Smith Problem? (review of the introduction) 2. … Continue reading →

Update: since I missed my morning flight to DCA (thanks TSA and CLEAR; see below), I will head off to Zaza’s in Terminal B to finish reading and reviewing Paul Sagar’s Adam Smith Reconsidered. In the meantime, I just have … Continue reading →

I found this thread on Twitter to be helpful (see below). PS: I absolutely positively refuse to call Twitter “X”, and I dislike hate everything that Elon Musk has done to this once glorious platform. I have even muted that … Continue reading →

Here, I will review the next two chapters of Paul Sagar’s 2022 book Adam Smith Reconsidered, beginning with Chapter 3, which is titled “Smith and Rousseau, after Hume and Mandeville” — four of my favorite 18th-century figures! The main subject … Continue reading →

Still a great song! Happy New Year!! Bonus ballad below the fold: