Elizabeth Kolbert has an interesting essay in The New Yorker about the ethics of parenting, wondering whether if there are ever ethical reasons to have children. Ethics certainly don't determine whether people will have children but it's an interesting conversation to have. The last paragraph:...
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The last structure from the early New York film industry is in trouble. The old Vitagraph studio lot in Brooklyn is long gone, but its smokestack remains. It is falling.
Apparently, today's winger meme is that a (Democratic) president offering some mild veiled criticism of the Supreme Court constitutes opposition to the institution of judicial review.
A couple of very interesting Civil War related items this morning. First, the Disunion series published one of its more touching and excellent pieces, on the high suicide rates among Confederate soldiers. This is just great. Second and more important is the revised analysis of...
In addition to the appalling substantive merits, what is particularly striking about yesterday's a-strip-search-for-jaywalking-is-reasonable case is that the quality of argumentation was shoddy above and beyond the indefensibility of the.
Our liberty-loving Supreme Court has once again decided to use the Federalist Society Constitution, the one with the word "suckers" in it that omits the Fourth Amendment. You can now.
As Coach John Calipari is surely banking on, the thing about actually winning the title is that the NCAA won't vacate your Final Four appearance afterwards. (Thanks a lot Chris Webber). I'm bitter because the outcome of this game cost me my NCAA pool, and...
Various links and such from the last few days as I catch up on sleep/the world after my time in Madison. 1. Historians are having a collective orgasm today over.
Forgive the absence, I was at a conference in Madison which was a great time made greater by an unexpected trip up to Stevens Point along the Wisconsin River yesterday..
I was lucky enough to chair a panel at WPSA where Rebecca Gill presented the latest iteration of her research into how the judicial merit evaluations done under ABA guidelines actually work in practice, and the results are as depressing as you would expect: Following...
Adam Litpak had a good article noting that Verrilli's oral argument appealed to Kennedy with the freedom-enhancing qualities of the Affordable Care Act. This motivated Ann Althouse, who didn't seem.
Good question: Why bar television cameras from the court’s proceedings if, in the end, oral argument unfolds in unapologetically made-for-television fashion? Scalia has been a frequent opponent of televising hearings;.