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Remember the ill-advised “stay-at-home” orders during the pandemic? In all, 43 State governors issued emergency (i.e. illegal) orders directing residents to stay at home and non-essential businesses to close in response to the coronavirus pandemic (see here, for example). But … Continue reading →

My previous three posts have been highly critical of Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein’s holier-than-thou new essay “Why I am a liberal”. Here, however, I want to focus on one point where both Sunstein and I agree: the fact that … Continue reading →

As I explained in my previous post, Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein’s critique of “tribalism” in his new essay “Why I am a liberal” shows us why public intellectuals like Sunstein are faux liberals, not true ones like Adam Smith … Continue reading →

I introduced Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein’s new essay “Why I am a liberal” in my previous post (see here), where I subjected the first of Sunstein’s 34 claims to critical scrutiny. To recap, I not only showed how the … Continue reading →

A few days ago, polymath Tyler Cowen brought to my attention “an excellent and benchmark piece” (Cowen’s words, not mine) titled “Why I am a liberal” by Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein. I hate to be “that guy” but Professor … Continue reading →

On this day (25 November) in 1876, U.S. Army troops raid the Cheyenne village of Chief Dull Knife (pictured below) on the Red Fork of the Powder River in retaliation for General Custer’s defeat at the Battle of the Little … Continue reading →

Book: Jorge Almazán, et al., “Emergent Tokyo: designing the spontaneous city” (for a 2024 trip to Tokyo I am preparing for; see also book cover below; hat tip: Kevin Postlewaite). Survey article: Dirk Bergemann & Marco Ottaviani, “Information markets and … Continue reading →

Happy Thanksgiving-break Friday! I had to do a double take earlier this week when I first saw the parody post pictured below via “shitposter” extraordinaire Alex Cohen (@anothercohen):

I first saw this thought-provoking autobiographical tribute to Thanksgiving Day by Comanche author Paul Chaat Smith when I visited the American Indian Museum in Washington, D.C. earlier this year (see here). Alas, I could not find this excellent and entertaining … Continue reading →

What a difference a day makes four or five days make!