This will be for listing law posts on my blog and keeping notes. Historical Examples of Rule by Decree. Rule by Decree and Incompetence: Administrative Law, Tyranny, and Covid-19. The Nicholas Sandmann defamation case. Harvard Law Professor Bruce Hay: “The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge”. In re Flynn George Floyd. Rule 48 Dismissal of […]
The Most Gullible Man in Cambridge: A Harvard Law professor who teaches a class on judgment wouldn’t seem like an obvious mark, would he? by Kera Bolonik, New York magazine, July 23, 2019. AUG. 8, 2019 The Harvard Professor Scam Gets Even Weirder Six other men describe their encounters with the same mysterious Frenchwoman. By […]
Since I’ve been reading The Republic with my children this summer and idly following the discussions of how colleges and universities should function during covid, I should write on education. In a brief form, suitable for Twitter: 1. Moral. Bravery. 2. Physical. Self-diagnosis. 3. Liberal. Homer. 4. Vocational. Spreadsheets. 5. Logical. Euclidean geometry. 6. […]
People need to understand these three categories. In brief: 1. Blasphemy is when you mock what is sacred. For the idea of blasphemy to make sense, you must start off believing something is sacred. If you believe in God, you’re there. However much you venerate Martin Luther King, you don’t have a reason to […]
Some video of this supposedly hopeless and depressed man: https://youtu.be/l3WhAiBNgW8 Mike Adams died by gunshot. He was retiring at age 55 with a $1/2 million settlement from the university and engaged to be married. Thousands hated him. No note, no goodbye tweet even. But the police say he died alone, so it must be suicide. […]
Professor Timothy Jackson is under attack at North Texas University by students, faculty, dean, and the usual suspects. He is a musicologists and published a scholarly article attacking a stupid race-based theory of music history. National Review tells the story: In the most recent issue of the Journal of Schenkerian Studies, Jackson published a critique […]
Flynn was charged with lying to FBI agents when they visited him in his office (without telling him he was under investigation or warning him that false statements to them would be felonies) and told them that he didn’t talk to the Russian ambassador about the US lifting trade sanctions. He pled guilty to this, […]
I was just reading a good review of Fukuyama’s life work in the NAS’s Academic Questions. He is best known for his “end of history” idea around 1989 that nations were all converging to liberal democracy and would stay there forever. People laugh at him for that, because Russia is somewhat autocratic, China is still […]
On July 29, 2020, Professor Robert George asks on Twitter: Name a teacher from your undergraduate days who discouraged you from falling into groupthink; unsettled your mind; broadened your outlook; introduced you to new ideas & taught you to reflect more deeply, critically, and independently. I’ll start: James Kurth, Swarthmore Coll My reply: Good question. […]
I’d like to write something on this. Covid is similar to Y2K and Global Warming and the Kosovo Massacres and Russiagate in illustrating liberal fantasies. Maybe covid will turn out to be a significant problem, but what is clear now is that the predictions of March were totally wrong and that the experts had no […]