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Archipelago of the Recherché (see here).

Are you surprised? Here is an update (follow the links if you are fuzzy on the background) over our exchange on my VC post on immigration and liberalism.

“I don’t want to hear anyone complaining about the deficit unless they immediately begin to list ways of taking things away from old people and making them work harder and longer. Otherwise you aren’t really bothered by the deficit at all.” Here is the link. As phrased the quotation is overstated and oversimplified, but it […]

mostly over the last couple of years (searches intentionally limited just to the name of the blog, and not including the name of the blogger without a reference to the blog): Query Mentions InstaPundit 480 talkingpointsmemo.com or (marshall w/s talking points memo) 223 plural(Atrios) 64 (the “plural” avoids “atrio,” but includes some false positives) DailyKos […]

Now on the Hugh Hewitt Show, talking about the Daily Kos controversy, together with John Hinderaker (Power Line).

One thing that puzzles me about the whole Daily Kos matter (see the original post, which has been rightly reviled, here and the non-apology apology here) — what’s wrong with people who provide security services for money? Security guards, both ill-paid and well-paid do it. Soldiers and police officers do it, too; I’m sure that […]

OK, here’s the Joel Feinberg story I promised. I never met the man. But this made an enduring impression on me from early in my undergraduate days. The acknowledgements of Feinberg’s books carry on a decades-long spat with one Josiah S. Carberry. This example from Freedom and Fulfillment is a particularly entertaining one: For a […]

Here is the link, courtesy of the electricity goddess, Lynne Kiesling. Don’t forget that the director is Mexican Alfred Cuaron, who also did the underrated and Freudian Little Princess, the failed but interesting Great Expectations, and the sublime Y Tu Mama Tambien. I have high hopes.

I’m happy to report that Seth Barrett Tillman, a class of 2000 law graduate who practiced for a couple of years and is now clerking for a district court judge, is publishing his article A Textualist Defense of Article I, Section 7, Clause 3: Why Hollingsworth v. Viriginia was Rightly Decided, and Why INS v. […]

Dan Barash has the scoop: In a press release, Jews stated, “Although we have thoroughly enjoyed the challenges of world domination for the last 300 years, we feel it’s time for gentiles to take control of their own affairs. We plan to spend more time with our families and pursue other interests.” . . .

I don’t think anyone here on the Volokh Conspiracy has commented directly on l’affaire Kos, and I don’t mean to start. But Julian Sanchez has a nice piece up about the partial professionalization of the blogosphere. I know that when I switched from my own blog to this one (which even then had more than […]

The opinions of several Ninth Circuit judges on the Second Amendment, urging (though unsuccessfully) an en banc rehearing on the individual/collective rights question, are here. The Tenth Circuit decision from a couple of weeks ago that followed the Tenth Circuit’s prior collective rights caselaw, though with one judge expressing an opinion more open to the […]

Once upon a time, I posted an account of my caffeine intake during a fairly typical day. The Chronicle took the idea and ran with it, asking four academics to keep caffeine diaries. Brad DeLong remains a piker at just over 373 mg in a day. Daniel Mendelsohn, on the other hand, clocks more than […]

Like most people, I suppose, I had thought that there was some pretty firm statistical evidence that racial profiling was going on in regard to highway stops — i.e., that black drivers are a lot more likely, all other things being equal, to be pulled over by cops than white drivers. According to an article […]

is here. (This was a longer post until a moment ago; Blogger just ate my Feinberg story. Re-writing it will have to wait until later.)