Archive | April, 2004

Here is the link, courtesy of the electricity goddess, Lynne Kiesling. Don’t forget that the director is Mexican Alfred Cuaron, who also did the underrated and Freudian Little Princess, the failed but interesting Great Expectations, and the sublime Y Tu Mama Tambien. I have high hopes.

I’m happy to report that Seth Barrett Tillman, a class of 2000 law graduate who practiced for a couple of years and is now clerking for a district court judge, is publishing his article A Textualist Defense of Article I, Section 7, Clause 3: Why Hollingsworth v. Viriginia was Rightly Decided, and Why INS v. […]

Dan Barash has the scoop: In a press release, Jews stated, “Although we have thoroughly enjoyed the challenges of world domination for the last 300 years, we feel it’s time for gentiles to take control of their own affairs. We plan to spend more time with our families and pursue other interests.” . . .

I don’t think anyone here on the Volokh Conspiracy has commented directly on l’affaire Kos, and I don’t mean to start. But Julian Sanchez has a nice piece up about the partial professionalization of the blogosphere. I know that when I switched from my own blog to this one (which even then had more than […]

The opinions of several Ninth Circuit judges on the Second Amendment, urging (though unsuccessfully) an en banc rehearing on the individual/collective rights question, are here. The Tenth Circuit decision from a couple of weeks ago that followed the Tenth Circuit’s prior collective rights caselaw, though with one judge expressing an opinion more open to the […]

Once upon a time, I posted an account of my caffeine intake during a fairly typical day. The Chronicle took the idea and ran with it, asking four academics to keep caffeine diaries. Brad DeLong remains a piker at just over 373 mg in a day. Daniel Mendelsohn, on the other hand, clocks more than […]

Like most people, I suppose, I had thought that there was some pretty firm statistical evidence that racial profiling was going on in regard to highway stops — i.e., that black drivers are a lot more likely, all other things being equal, to be pulled over by cops than white drivers. According to an article […]

is here. (This was a longer post until a moment ago; Blogger just ate my Feinberg story. Re-writing it will have to wait until later.)

According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Parents of a young woman [Rachel Corrie] who was killed by an Israeli soldier driving a Caterpillar bulldozer spoke Sunday at a rally to build support for two protests against Caterpillar this month in Chicago and Peoria. . . . The rally was organized by the International Solidarity Movement, a […]

This week’s Rockin’ Book Tour for Restoring the Lost Constitution takes me to Phoenix, Arizona. Tuesday 4/6:Phoenix Fed Society Lawyers (4:30pm – The Goldwater Institute) Wednesday 4/7:ASU (12:05 – 1:25pm, Armstrong Hall – 114) Next week: Notre Dame on April 15th at 1:00pm.Two Weeks: Universtity of Oregon, Washington University, Puget Sound Lawyers.

NRO’s Ramesh Ponnuru takes on frequent NRO contributor Maggie Gallagher on Senator Hatch’s proposed marriage amendment. In a related item, AEI federalism guru Michael Greve argues that a “constitutional DOMA” (similar to the Hatch proposal) is the proper federalist approach to the gay marriage issue.

It’s not turning out to be so simple. Read this story. Not being a lawyer, I’m not even sure what the ruling means. I do know it favored the sued users and upset the big music companies. And this article explains why the indies are not nearly so upset.

I second Tyler’s excellent point, below. I once asked a very prominent “modern liberal” scholar, someone everyone reading this blog would likely have heard of, how he reconciled his support of a Social Democratic welfare state with general principles of liberalism holding that each individual has equal value, given that stringent immigration restrictions would inevitably […]

It is commonly noted that Hollywood prefers movies that fit into standard categories, such as “action movie,” “romantic comedy,” etc. If you prefer something unusual, I’ll recommend Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, starring Jim Carrey (not a standard Carrey movie), Kate Winslet, and Kirsten Dunst. The core story line concerns a couple who split […]

I often ask myself this question when I read Matthew Yglesias or Brad DeLong, two of the smartest liberals in the blogosphere. I can think of a few reasons why I am not a liberal, but here is arguably the most fundamental. Immigration is a better anti-poverty program than is welfare spending. At the relevant […]