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We will jump into Chapter 1 of “Anarchy, State, and Utopia” in the next day or two; in the meantime, below are screenshots of my most recent “Shazams”:

Originally posted on prior probability:
Nozick’s preface sets forth his main conclusion: only a “minimal state”–i.e. a collective “limited to the narrow functions of protection against force, theft, fraud, enforcement of contracts, and so on”–is consistent with the principle of…

Back in the fall of 2017 and extending off-and-on into the summer of 2018, I wrote up and posted to this blog a page-by-page, chapter-by-chapter review of Robert Nozick’s work “Anarchy, State, and Utopia,” one of the all-time most influential … Continue reading →

According to Google Scholar, two of my papers have been cited 10 times by other scholars (my 2014 paper “Goedel’s Loophole” and my 2010 paper “A Game-Theoretic Analysis of the Puerto Rico Status Debate“; see screenshot immediately below this paragraph), … Continue reading →

You may have already heard that Netflix will be releasing Season 2 of “Tiger King” on November 17, 2021. (See here, for example.) In related news, my July 2020 law review article, “Teaching Tiger King“, was recently published in final … Continue reading →

I attended my fifth and final scholarly conference of the fall semester: two via Zoom (the Central States Law School Association and LatCrit); one in the hybrid format, which I attended in person (the International Adam Smith Society in Madison, … Continue reading →

You can find many more mathematical LEGO sculptures here.

The first I ever heard about Chegg was in the spring of 2021, when I discovered that some students were posting the answers to my quiz questions on the Chegg platform — quiz questions that I had created myself, by … Continue reading →

Below the fold is a small sample of English-language dailies marking the end of “the war to end all wars” — the original Armistice Day (11 November 1919).