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Check out this recent review by John Paul Rathbone, writing for The Financial Times (my favorite newspaper, by the way), of Anthony DePalma’s latest book “The Cubans: Life in a World of Lost Charisma.” This beautiful book contains a collection … Continue reading →

Yulier P. is the nom de guerre of the Cuban graffiti artist Yulier Rodriguez Perez (@yuliergraffiticuba). I featured some of his art on this blog last year (see here and here, for example). He was recently interviewed by Diario de … Continue reading →

  Following up on my previous post, here are two additional in-depth reports (in Spanish) about the homicide of Hansel Ernesto Hernández Galiano: this entry in Wikipedia and this report by BBC News Mundo. According to these reports, the only … Continue reading →

Alternative Title: Defund the Cuban Police One more “data point.” Another cruel indignity. This time at the hands of the Cuban State Police. I just found out that an officer working for Cuba’s National Revolutionary Police shot and killed an … Continue reading →

The two-hour launch window opens on Thursday, July 30 at 7:50am (Eastern).

On the recommendation of my colleague, friend, and fellow Indophile Alex Tabarrok, I finally got around to reading Megha Majumdar’s debut novel “A Burning,” which revolves around a false criminal prosecution for terrorism and sedition. Here is the blog post … Continue reading →

Originally posted on prior probability:
Before I begin blogging about legal positivism, I want to go on the record and send the following succinct message to the Florida Board of Bar Examiners: it’s time to pull your heads out of…

While I am “on vacation” working on sundry scholarly projects and enjoying some R&R with my family, I created this film noir collage of some of the classic noir movies my family and I have seen during the month of … Continue reading →

What role does probability theory play in legal trials? What role should it play? In addition to my “Bayesian voting primer“–yes, the same one that an anonymous group of moderators found “unrefereeable“–, I have also been writing up an extended … Continue reading →