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What is Gödel’s loophole, and why is this puzzle relevant to our times? I will be addressing these questions when I present my work-in-progress Gödel’s Interbellum at the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools in Washington, D.C. … Continue reading →

For your refernce, below are links to my five-part review of Paul Sagar’s Adam Smith Reconsidered: History, Liberty, and the Foundations of Modern Politics (Princeton University Press, 2022): 1. The Real Das Adam Smith Problem? (review of the introduction) 2. … Continue reading →

Update: since I missed my morning flight to DCA (thanks TSA and CLEAR; see below), I will head off to Zaza’s in Terminal B to finish reading and reviewing Paul Sagar’s Adam Smith Reconsidered. In the meantime, I just have … Continue reading →

I found this thread on Twitter to be helpful (see below). PS: I absolutely positively refuse to call Twitter “X”, and I dislike hate everything that Elon Musk has done to this once glorious platform. I have even muted that … Continue reading →

Here, I will review the next two chapters of Paul Sagar’s 2022 book Adam Smith Reconsidered, beginning with Chapter 3, which is titled “Smith and Rousseau, after Hume and Mandeville” — four of my favorite 18th-century figures! The main subject … Continue reading →

Still a great song! Happy New Year!! Bonus ballad below the fold:

Happy New Year! Today, I will review Chapter 2 of Paul Sagar’s 2022 book Adam Smith Reconsidered. This chapter — titled “Domination, Liberty, and the Rule of Law” — is the most lengthy part of Sagar’s work, but it is … Continue reading →

For once, I agree with Antonio Brown! See also here. (Or are the conspiracy theories true, i.e. are the outcomes of pro games scripted?)

Happy New Year’s Eve, loyal readers! Here, I will review Chapter 1 of Adam Smith Reconsidered, which is titled “Commercial Society, History, and the Four Stages Theory”. In brief, from what I can tell, Professor Sagar has two goals in … Continue reading →