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Archive | 2010
What Did James Madison Think about Blogs?
By Jonathan H. Adler on November 22, 2010 10:18 am in Blogosphere, Constitutional Law, Constitutional Theory, Originalism
Are bloggers the 21st century equivalent of political pamphleteers? Would James Madison have had one? I don’t know. But I do know that several faculty members at the University of San Diego School of Law’s Center for the Study of Constitutional Originalism have launched “The Originalism Blog.” This blog won’t endeavor to answer the question in this […]
Guest-Blogging General This Week at the LawFare Blog
This should be interesting: We are thrilled to be joined this week by a guest blogger: Brigadier General Mark Martins. General Martins commands the Rule of Law Field Force–Afghanistan . . . [T]he U.S. military and diplomatic mission are assembling a substantial and diverse task force of lawyers, engineers, trainers, advisors, procurement experts, military police, […]
Counterinsurgency Then and Now
By Kenneth Anderson on November 21, 2010 10:21 pm in Afghanistan, Uncategorized, War and Armed Conflict
Over at SSRN, I have posted up a very old article by Jean-Marie Simon and me, Permanent Counterinsurgency in Guatemala. It appeared in 1987 in the critical theory journal Telos (No. 73, Fall 1987, 9-46). Here is the abstract, which includes a bit of information on why I have posted it up now: This 1987 […]
Dan Solove versus the TSA
Over at Concurring Opinions, G.W. lawprof Dan Solove has some fun with the Playmobil airline screening playset. UPDATE: 21st century Gadsen Flag(H/T Jacob Hornberger via Facebook)
Update on Our Spam Filter
Thanks to Joe Malchow, our Akismet spam filter now seems to be working very well — nearly all the comments that end up in the Spam folder (probably about 1000 or so per day) are genuine spam. But for reasons that remain mysterious, some legitimate comments, plus a few spam comments, end up being held […]
Theatre of Capitalism and Anti-Capitalism?
In my last post, on microfinance, I mentioned toward the end a play by Bertolt Brecht, The Good Person of Szechuan. In it, a young woman inherits a small shop in a village, but because of her generous heart, nearly runs it into the ground because she can’t say no to anyone. So she goes […]
Rehabilitating Lochner Artist
I’ve been getting a lot of compliments on the book cover for my forthcoming “Rehabilitating Lochner” (see below). The concept was my own, but the execution was by New York-based artist Richard Weinstein. He was a pleasure to work with, and charged a quite reasonable fee. I highly recommend him. Richard’s website can be found […]
“Internal Structures of Logic or Order”
A commenter wrote, apropos my “pleaded” / “pled” post, Can Volokh possibly be truthful when he says that he can see no basis for calling a use “incorrect” other than statistical usage? Can he really believe that [l]anguage has no other internal structure of logic or order except for usage? This is a silly view. […]
Kent Scheidegger on National Opt-Out Day
From his Crime & Consequences blog: On the subject of excessively intrusive airport screenings, I agree with Charles Krauthammer. We need to get rid of security theater, get over our problem with “profiling,” and direct more scrutiny to those likely to be security risks and less to those who are not. However, the idea of […]
Interesting Interview with Noam Chomsky
Seriously, it is. But just when you are tempted to take Chomsky a bit seriously, you get a dialogue like this, filled with evasion and absolute double-talk: You believe that the job of the intellectual is to dissent, to speak truth to power, and to wrestle with power. But there is a troubling way in […]
Girl Talk and Intellectual Property
David Post’s item on Girl Talk inspired me, in two ways. First, I downloaded the album, which is indeed very good, if perhaps not quite as astonishing as Gillis’s last effort. Of course, I’m a longtime fan. And second, in reading some of the comments, I was reminded that I wrote a review of Larry […]
Microfinance as Subprime
Having done a fair amount of work in microfinance and closely related areas (development finance involving business clients with larger-than-microfinance loans) in the developing world, I am overall a big fan. As many people are. The question that has long loomed, however, is whether it can or should scale upwards to become a full-fledged part […]
Girl Talk:
As many of you have undoubtedly heard, the Pittsburgh based DJ and mashup artist “Girl Talk” — real name Gregg Gillis — has released his latest album, “All Day” available for free download at his website (www.illegal-art.net). [Be patient – the site’s been overwhelmed with download requests] It’s damned good stuff — maybe even great […]
DC Circuit Denies Rehearing in United States v. Maynard, the “Mosaic Theory” Case, by 5-4 Vote
The DC Circuit has just noted on its docket that it has denied rehearing in United States v. Maynard, the GPS case introducing a new “mosaic” theory of the Fourth Amendment, by a 5-4 vote. According to the docket entry, there were two dissents from denial of rehearing. Judge Sentelle wrote one dissent that was […]