Monthly Archive: December 2010

I met Kenneth Lipp not long ago through a mutual friend in England and have already had occassion to be vastly impressed by the frenetic pace at which he works. As a junior research...

This month at Cato Unbound, Daniel Klein touches on a topic I’ve long found fascinating — Where do property rights come from? Although he doesn’t answer directly, he does challenge one popular modern idea,...

For those interested,

Just a week ago I noted that the suspect arrested by the FBI after having been encouraged over the course of months to plant a fake bomb which they themselves provided him; meanwhile an...

Jeremy Waldron is probably the foremost authority on the need to give human rights a theological grounding. This paper explores issues with using “Imago Dei” to ground human rights. A taste:

I just found out ten minutes ago that my friend Sean Carasov has committed suicide. The deed was carried out a few weeks ago at his home in California with a .45. I’d like...

This HBO made movie is worth seeing for Kathy Bates’ performance as Helen Kushnick, Jay Leno’s late manager.

Some enemies of Saul Bellow and friends of Allan Bloom have tried to cast doubt on the idea that Allan Bloom died of AIDS, a fact that Bellow spread in his roman à clef...

Years ago, I read that Americans on average thought we spent something like a quarter of our budget on foreign aid. It was a ridiculous overestimate, both then and now, and I figured the...

So, I wake up this morning all hung over and whatnot and thus decide to spend the day doing nothing, and then I see that there’s a trackback thingy on my most recent blog...

I did it in a comment at First Things here. I wrote:

Highly recommended. Go read.

The quality of the recording is not great; but the music is amazing.

I quite commonly read blog commenters who argue that academics know less about the really important issues of politics than the average Joe. Let’s just specify what these folks are claiming. They’re claiming that...

I have mentioned in passing my distributed think-tank Project PM which I founded a year ago in order to fulfill a narrow function but which has since expanded in intent quite a bit. Last...

Today I clicked the unsubscribe link on an email from an academic products company and got the following incongruous message: Thank you for your interest. You are now unsubscribed.