I just finished Victor Davis Hanson’s Ripples of Battle, which details three lesser-known battles: Okinawa (1945), Shiloh (1862), and Delium (424 B.C.) As usual, his description of the battles and surrounding events are fascinating. But the thesis is that these battles, though not as much discussed as others, have had ripples extending up to today. […]
Author Archive | Randy Barnett
The 9th Amendment in the Blogsphere:
A lively debate on the original meaning of the Ninth Amendment has broken out on Southern Appeal (here, here & here) and is spreading throughout the blogsphere (for some links click here). As is to be expected in a blog debate, it is long on confident assertion and a little short on comprehensive discussion of […]
Wish I’d been there:
Via Hanah, pictures from the San Francisco gay weddings.
Legislating Morality:
Having spoken on my book yesterday at University of Houston and South Texas College of Law, I am in San Antonio today to speak at St. Mary’s. And speaking of Texas, on Mirror of Justice, Rick Garnett offers this criticism of a claim I make in Justice Kennedy’s Libertarian Revolution: Lawrence v. Texas in the […]
Book Tour Continues This Week:
My book tour for Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty marches on. Today I am in Minneapolis. Here is the rest of this week’s schedule: MinneapolisMonday 2/9University of Minnesota (12:15pm, Law School, Room 40) William Mitchell College of Law (5:30pm, Kelley Board Room, 2nd Floor) Tuesday 2/10University of St.Thomas Law School (12:00pm, Moot […]
A True Fact: I just heard that John Kerry was a Vietnam Vet:
Did you know that John Kerry was a soldier in the Vietnam war? Well, he was. I just stumbled across this closely held secret somewhere on the blogsphere. Not that you would know it from listening to Senator Kerry himself who mentions it only under duress, since even the appearance of exploiting his military service […]
Yet another (long) post about the Holocaust:
Thanks everyone for the thoughtful (both agreeing and disagreeing) messages and response posts. Thanks even for the not very thoughtful ones. Two of the better posts are at Jumping to Conclusions and at Kesher Talk. One of the not-so-good posts says that “Holocaust denial also includes the minimization of the Holocaust, or denying its uniqueness.” […]
SOLOMONIA
finds it disconcerting that I don’t believe in the moral uniqueness of the Holocaust. He leaves it to others to refute me, but he has a go at it anyway, pointing to anti-Semitic statements by the Palestinian Authority as evidence that the Holocaust is part of a history of anti-Semitism that isn’t over yet. (He […]
Book Tour This Week:
I will be discussing Restoring the Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty, this week in New York, DC & Chicago. Stop by to say hi if you are a Volokh Conspiracy reader (as I imagine you are if you are reading this). I am tentatively scheduled to be on the Milt Rosenberg Show on WGN-AM 720 […]
Complete Book Tour Schedule:
Although I intend to confine myself to one post a week announcing the immediately forthcoming dates for my book tour for Restoring the Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty, I have received several queries from readers about whether I was coming to a particular city or state. So I decided to post the entire tour (subject […]
I agree with
Mark Kleiman on the Dean Scream.
Clint Eastwood Outed in USA Today:
From this interview: So, socially, you’re live-and-let-live. How about politically? I suppose. I don’t see myself as conservative, but I’m not ultra-leftist. You build a philosophy of your own. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how […]
Book Tour Continues in Virginia:
The book tour for Restoring the Lost Constitution: The Presumption of Liberty continues this week in Virginia: Tuesday January 27thUniversity of Virginia School of Law (Charlottesville), 4:20pm Wednesday, January 28thWashington & Lee School of Law(Lexington), noon Thursday, January 29thWilliam & Mary School of Law(Williamsburg), noon All talks are open to the public and lunch talks […]
A neat little application
that gives you a map of the U.S. where you can paint the states you’ve visited in red. (Of course, you can use red to highlight states that fulfill any criterion you like, not just whether you’ve visited them.) create your own visited states map or write about it on the open travel guide UPDATE: […]
Perhaps
Shmata is the Greek plural of Sh’ma. Also, my father asks whether, if Lieberman gets some pro-Jewish law passed that benefits his district, it’s correct to call it pork.