Brian Leiter offers some advice on entering the law teaching market and links to his helpful essay on the topic. IHS also has a good booklet on this posted on the web, Law School and Beyond: The IHS Guide to Careers in Legal Academia. Although the IHS booklet was designed to help those with libertarian […]
Archive | July, 2004
“Terror in the Skies” and the Carrot Top Connection:
The Syrian band behind Annie Jacobsen’s story seems to have been discovered. Either this is a really, really clever disguise, or the band is legit. Thanks to Elliot Fladen for the link.
WATCH IT, FATSO:
As someone who believes your right to overeat ends where my airplane seat begins, I don’t think that Medicare’s decision last week to begin paying for obesity treatments is such a terrible example of nanny-state meddling. The thin already are forced to subsidize the fat anyway, via taxes and higher private insurance costs. Why not […]
The Moral Foundations of Modern Libertarianism:
That is the title of a new paper I have uploaded to SSRN. It will appear later this year as a chapter of a book edited by Peter Berkowitz of George Mason Law School entitled, Varieties of Conservatism in America. The book will be published by Hoover Press. As Larry Solum says on Legal Theory […]
Pow! Smash! Truncate!
Mark Liberman has an interesting post over at Language Log about the spelling of interjections and onomatopoetic words in comic strips. It brought back a memory of a Broom Hilda strip I read sometime in the 5th grade. Someone was getting beaten up, and the frame showed the standard cloud of dust with fists and […]
Read the Whole Thing:
Mark Kleiman complains that the WSJ editorial page is “full of Bush lit” for suggesting that the Joseph Wilson controversy might have a legal bearing on whether the leaker of Valerie Plame’s identity can be prosecuted. As evidence, he cites a news story in yesterdays WSJ which reports: Whether or not it damages [Wilson] or […]
Climate: The More We Look, The Less We Know
That seems to be the implication of the “money quote” Daniel Drezner highlights from David Victor’s CFR monograph on climate change policy.
Blakely and Lower Court Judges:
I concur with Orin’s post below that the ideological mix of judges on lower courts does not explain their response to the Blakely decision. Exhibit A to WIll Baude’s argument is Paul Cassell. As an academic, Cassell was an advocate of the sentencing guidelines, yet he was one of the first federal judges to find […]
Blakely and the Selection of Lower Court Judges:
Over at TNR Online, Will Baude draws a connection between the lower court reaction to Blakely v. Washington and the ideology of lower court judges. According to Will, Blakely has caused an upheaval in the lower courts in part because lower court judges are ideologically sympathetic to the case and want to construe it broadly. […]
Center for Talented Youth:
Jacob writes today about his experience with the “CTY” programs of Johns Hopkins. Basically pre-college kids take college-like classes over the summer. I just did a parent-teacher interview there (as the parent). Yana, who is fourteen, took a class on the philosophy of mind. She just started another class on the French and Russian Revolutions. […]
OF GERBILS AND MEN:
My National Review column today is on Snopes, the indispensable urban legends debunker site. I became interested in urban legends several years ago, when for a while it seemed like that terrible tale of Richard Gere and the gerbil was all anyone was talking about. Gerbils aren’t actually in the habit of burrowing up the […]
Too much:
Can we please not put all this weight onto the performance of Catwoman? The first African-American to win an Oscar for best actress — for the 2001 film “Monster’s Ball” — [Halle] Berry has now become the first African-American actress to headline an expensive, effects-laden production, this one about a meek graphic artist who turns […]
Square Root Camp:
This week’s New Yorker has a mostly very good article by Burkhard Bilger about the summer residential academic camps run by Johns Hopkins’ Center for Talented Youth– “nerd camp,” as he calls it in a move that would be cute two or three times but becomes kind of odd when he uses it every time. […]
Appalling Aspects of Story on Terrorist Friends:
On Monday, the Washington Post carried this story about a group of seven friends from Jenin who had formed a theater troupe under the direction of an Israeli director in the early post-Oslo days. Only two of them didn’t eventually become terrorists, and most are now dead. The story has two especially galling aspects (beyond […]
I Hate the Boss of Me My Boss!
Here is something that my brother Glen never said to me while we were growing up: You’re not the boss of me! However, he did say this on a number of occasions: You’re not my boss! For the past few years, though, I’ve been hearing the first phrasing much more than the second one, and […]