Like my George Mason colleague Bryan Caplan, I gave two talks at the Students for Liberty International Conference this weekend. And I emphatically agree with Bryan’s observation that the SFL students I met had vastly better social skills and are generally much more socially “normal” than were the young libertarians of my own generation (I […]
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Godfather Part IV: The Blogfather
Alleged Mafia boss Thomas Gioeli has started his own blog from prison [correction: jail] [HT: Instapundit, who claims that he himself is the true “Blogfather”]: Call him the blogging crime boss: Reputed Colombo kingpin Thomas (Tommy Shots) Gioeli has set up a behind-bars blog to portray himself as a good guy – not a wiseguy […]
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 […]
DeLong Doubles Down
Brad DeLong responds to my post. As illustrated below the jump, he engages in selective editing and continues to misrepresent the players in this saga. (He also omits links to most of those to whom he’s responding.) Larry Ribstein also comments here.
Why Oh Why Can’t We Have Better EconProf Bloggers?
Would you consider it sound for one academic to attack a paper written by another, calling it (among other things) “obviously erroneous” and “simply stupid,” based upon a third-party representation of what it says? And would you consider it responsible to use the third-party representation of said paper as Exhibit A for questioning why the […]
Choosing Blogging Topics
Co-blogger Eugene Volokh gives some sensible reasons for why he chooses not to blog about some topics. I gave my own criteria for making such decisions here: I try to limit blogging to issues where I have a comparative advantage: that is, questions on which I can say something useful or interesting that is unlikely […]
ABA Journal Blawg 100 Amici
I’m sure Our Chief Conspirator is far too shy, modest, and retiring to note that the ABA Journal is inviting people to come and name their favorite legal blogs … but I’m not. It is an interesting format, actually – it is not an online vote or poll, where the blogs with the most buddies […]
SALTLAW Blog
I just learned that SALT — the Society of American Law Teachers, as which bills itself as “a community of progressive law teachers working for justice, diversity and academic excellence” — has a blog: The SALTLAW Blog. Worth checking out.
Ribstein Joins Truth on the Market
University of Illinois law professor Larry Ribstein is abandoning his solo blog, Ideoblog, and joining Truth on the Market. More here.
Bloggers disagree on politics of offshore drilling, and immigration
The latest National Journal poll of political bloggers asked: “With the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, does it make political sense for President Obama to stick to his plans to allow increased oil and gas development along the coasts?” Only 6% of the Left, but 75% of the Right thought that it did still make […]
“Cyber Civil Rights” Symposium
By David Kopel on March 22, 2010 4:19 pm in Blogosphere, Computer Crime Law, Cyberspace Law, Uncategorized
Danielle Citron Last year, Maryland law professor Danielle Citron published “Cyber Civil Rights” in the BU Law Review. Here’s the abstract: Social networking sites and blogs have increasingly become breeding grounds for anonymous online groups that attack women, people of color, and members of other traditionally disadvantaged groups. . . . Attackers manipulate search engines to […]
Joseph Bottum Spots Eugene Volokh Changing the Culture
Instapundit points us in the direction of Joseph Bottum’s First Things blog post yesterday; also Althouse’s comment: [W]hile I was [at NYU Law School] I saw posters for a lecture this afternoon by Eugene Volokh on the structure of slippery-slope arguments. … the posters for Volokh’s talk read, as I remember: “Founder of The Volokh Conspiracy blog and […]
SCOTUSblogging
Starting next week, I’m going to be dividing some of my blogging time as I try out co-blogging over at SCOTUSblog. SCOTUSblog is bolstering its commentary and analysis role, and as a part of that I’m going to be blogging over there occasionally about various aspects of the Court’s criminal law docket (and especially the […]
An Exchange on Comment Moderating
A few minutes ago I deleted a comment from a conservative commenter, “Gaydude,” that was an obnoxious and personal attack in response to liberal commenter “ArthurKirkland.” GayDude then wrote another comment directed to me that I think deserves a wider audience: Wait, my post criticizing Arthur’s post was removed? Oh, right, this is an Orin […]
Normblog’s Interviews with Prominent Political Bloggers
Some of our readers are probably already aware of it, but I only recently found out about Norman Geras’ interesting archive of interviews with prominent political bloggers. Among many others, there is a recent interview with the VC’s own David Bernstein, and earlier ones with Jonathan Adler and Eugene Volokh. In reading the interviews with […]