Author Archive | Maimon Schwarzschild

Thanks to the Volokh Conspirators, one and all, for the hospitality this past week! All of us from TheRightCoast have really enjoyed guest-blogging here!

Some fascinating literary detective work about Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita” in the (London) Times Literary Supplement (available on line only to TLS subscribers, unfortunately). It seems that in the 1920s, while Nabokov was living in Berlin, an aristocratic Berlin aesthete named Heinz von Lichberg published a short story about a nymphet and the middle-aged man who […]

There seems to be some confusion as to the “correct line” on the urgent public question of obesity. On the one hand, Time magazine devotes most of this week’s issue to the “obesity crisis”. ABC News and Ralph Nader put the blame where you might expect, i.e. on greedy corporations — aka fast food — […]

Gail Heriot’s post from Proverbs (just below) was well timed. Friday evening is the time, in traditional Jewish families, that husbands and sons read or chant that passage in full, as the household gathers for the Friday night dinner and the women light the Sabbath candles. “Eshet hayil mi yimzah?…” in Hebrew; literally, “A woman […]

Two major Watergate figures — nemeses of Richard Nixon — died this week: Archibald Cox, the Harvard law professor turned Special Prosecutor, and Sam Dash, Democratic counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee. Nixon’s dismissal of Cox as Special Prosecutor gave us the anti-Nixon bumper sticker “Impeach the Cox Sacker”.

There were floods in rural Haiti (and nearby in the Dominican Republic) over the past few days. Thousands may have died — no one will ever know the casualty figures very exacly, at least in Haiti — and thousands more Haitians lost everything of the very, very little that they had. I spent some time […]