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That is how an anonymous group of self-described arXiv “moderators” described my most recent work in progress “Weyl Versus Ramsey: A Primer on Bayesian Voting,” which I have been diligently working on during my summer break and which I tried … Continue reading →

Today the Island of Puerto Rico celebrates “El Día de la Constitución.” On this day in 1898, the U.S. Army invaded Puerto Rico to expel the Spanish, and on this same day in 1952, the first democratically-elected Governor of Puerto … Continue reading →

I want to shout out the Spanish remix version of Camila Cabello’s beautiful song “Havana,” a song about a lost love, especially Daddy Yankee’s masterful contribution to the song, which begins at 1’24” … Among other things, Daddy Yankee sings: … Continue reading →

At the suggestion of some of my friends, I have decided to reserve the domain name for “the-war-room.org” and convert this virtual space into my personal website. My new website will house my research papers, course syllabi, and some personal … Continue reading →

Paging my friends Randy Barnett, Josh Blackman, Will Baude, Larry Solum, and others … In preparing for my July 22 talk on “Constitutional Aspects of Puerto Rico’s Political Status,” I noticed that no other Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court … Continue reading →

Not the one featured in the video below! The story is here. (Hat tip: Tyler Cowen.)

Originally posted on prior probability:
As you may have heard by now, the NBA recently released a 113-page manual in anticipation of the resumption of the 2019-20 season. (Check out this summary of the manual by Ben Cohen for The…

Originally posted on prior probability:
Review (part 2 of 2) of Matthew W. Slaboch, A Road to Nowhere: The Idea of Progress and Its Critics (U Penn Press, 2018). In my previous post, I mentioned that the concept of progress…

Originally posted on prior probability:
Review (part 1 of 2) of Matthew W. Slaboch, A Road to Nowhere: The Idea of Progress and Its Critics (U Penn Press, 2018). As soon as I heard about Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen’s…

Originally posted on prior probability:
Hello. Because this is a one-man blog, and because I will be taking a vacation for the rest of July and for most of August, I will be blogging much more sporadically, if at all,…