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Via Arnold Kling: “From a liberty-coercion perspective, [the slogan ‘defund the police’ is] a misdirected effort. Excess coercion comes from unnecessary laws and unaccountable enforcement. For libertarians, reform would start with having fewer laws. Those who enforce the laws should … Continue reading →

What is “Juneteenth”? Via Kottke, here is a helpful introduction. According to Wikipedia, citing this excellent essay by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Juneteenth originally began as an unofficial commemoration of a military order (issued on 19 June 1865 by Union … Continue reading →

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 Wall Street Journal.) The manual … Continue reading →

The closing credits of the popular Netflix docuseries “Tiger King” states that there are between 5,000 to 10,000 privately-owned tigers in the United States. But where do all of those privately-owned captive tigers live? Check out the screenshot below from … Continue reading →

Throughout my six-week survey course in business law I have asked my students to complete a wide variety of assignments. By way of example, first they had to watch “Tiger King” during Week 1 of the course and write up … Continue reading →

To relieve some of the stress and anxiety of finals, I have just posted to the homepage of my “tiger law” survey course the following fun survey question: Now that the semester is almost over, are you “Team Joe” or … Continue reading →

Note: This is the fifth of six blog posts devoted to Week 6/Module 6 of my business law summer course. Hey, what’s up? Now that we have studied business ethics (or CSR) as well as normative ethics (or ethics qua ethics), … Continue reading →

Note: This is the fourth of six blog posts devoted to Week 6/Module 6 of my business law summer course. Thus far, we have gone back to Aristotle and Aquinas, so to speak–we have explored the relationship between law and morality … Continue reading →

Time out! While we are on the subject of normative ethics (consequentialism, duties, and virtue) and applied ethics (animal rights), check out this fragment on “Moral Theory” from the much larger “Map of Philosophy” (both of which are pictured below). … Continue reading →