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Did you know the tallest standing wooden structure in Europe is the Gliwice Radio Tower (118 metres or 387 feet) and that this historic radio tower was the scene of the Gleiwitz incident on 31 August 1939? You can read … Continue reading →

Check out this beautiful essay by Jake Rossen, which is titled “The Enduring Mystery of the Oreo Cookie Design” (hat tip: @pickover).

Hello, fellow Earthlings! I now want to conclude my multi-part series on the problem of misinformation (see here, here, here, and here) by posing a simple rhetorical question: What’s so bad about misinformation and conspiracy theories and the like? After … Continue reading →

Is the marketplace of ideas broken? My colleagues David Pozen (Columbia), Yochai Benkler (Harvard), and Amy Kapczynsky (Yale) all seem to think so. I already dispatched Pozen and Benkler’s proposed cures — Pozen wants more big tech censorship (see here), … Continue reading →

Happy 2/2/22! Last week, I reviewed two of three essays published by the Knight First Amendment Institute on the marketplace of ideas, one by David Pozen; the other by Yochai Benkler. In summary, both Pozen and Benkler blame social media … Continue reading →

Happy Presidents’ Day (USA)! I will proceed with my series on the marketplace of ideas in my next post. In the meantime, I am re-posting this map of the settings of Shakespeare’s plays. (You may order the map here.)

Check out this excellent essay by Jesse Spector (via Deadspin). Here is an excerpt: “… the owners are trying to make every last penny available, and the lockout will end when they feel they’ve squeezed until they can squeeze no … Continue reading →

This provocative tweet from Celine Leboeuf (@philo_celine) popped up into my Twitter feed the other day, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since!

In my previous post, I critiqued David Pozen’s misguided critique of the marketplace of ideas. It turns out, however, that Pozen’s essay is just one of three contributions in a larger series of essays on the theme of “Lies and … Continue reading →