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I confess: I really love this all-time Mariah Carey classic! Double bonus “Carpool Karaoke” and Yu Huiyeol’s “K-pop” versions below:

Blast from the past (2016), via the now-defunct blog Unlikely Words. We’ve all by now seen this excellent Die Hard Christmas tree ornament, but since it got spread around virally so late in the year no one had any time… … Continue reading →

Via my favorite expat blog View from the Back. The shop is À la Mère de Famille (pictured below), and it was founded in 1760. I wonder if Adam Smith or his pupil the 3rd Duke of Buccleugh visited this … Continue reading →

Christmas is just 11 days away! In addition to a number of research articles, essays, etc., I will be reading the following books — and blogging about them — during the holidays:

That is the new title of my revised work-in-progress. Here is the abstract: “What is liberalism, and what is the relation between law and liberty? This paper presents a Coasian critique of liberalism, whether seen from the progressive perspective of … Continue reading →

Today (12 December) is the Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe, a national holiday in Mexico and one of my favorite feast days of the year! (More details here and here, in Spanish.)

On this day (11 December) in 1972, the sixth and final manned mission (Apollo 17) lands on the Moon.

My colleague and dear friend Patricia Navarro Velez was taken from us on 6 December, one of more than 40,000 people killed in gun violence in the U.S. so far this year. Here is the link to the verified GoFundMe … Continue reading →

I learned earlier today that Patricia Navarro Velez was one of the victims of the 6 December UNLV shooting. As it happens, I knew Dr Navarro Velez personally. She not only completed her PhD studies at my home institution, UCF; … Continue reading →