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27 Oct 2022, 4:48 pm by David Friedman
A liberal in the 19th century was a believer in small government, free markets, and individual freedom, roughly what we now call a libertarian.[1] The label  had earlier been used for left anarchists, still earlier for believers in the doctrine of free will. [read post]
24 Oct 2022, 10:37 am by William Appleton
The discussion will be moderated by James W. [read post]
3 Oct 2022, 12:04 pm by admin
  After all, he holds an advanced degree in statistics, and yet, he is willing write that that: “[w]hile historically used as a rule of thumb, statisticians have now concluded that using the 0.05 [p-value] threshold is more distortive than helpful. [read post]
13 Sep 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  James Madison had suggested that constitutional protections of rights were, ultimately, only “parchment barriers” against the desires of those with political power, whether democratic majorities or oligarchs, to get their way. [read post]
24 Jun 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
As James Madison declares in a powerful passage in Federalist 37, the Bible is in fact not transparent in its meanings. [read post]
The SEC explained: [W]e believe that NEPA requires and authorizes the Commission to consider the promotion of environmental protection along with other considerations in determining whether to require affirmative disclosures by registrants under the Securities Act and the Securities and Exchange Act . . . . [read post]
8 Jun 2022, 7:00 am by Guest Blogger
” I quote from the King James Version of the Bible, the preferred translation of Primitive Baptists—including Sandy’s paradigmatic constitutional Protestant, Hugo Black (Levinson 1988, 31-33). [read post]
31 May 2022, 6:43 am by familoo
A lot has been written of late about the privacy (or otherwise) of family money cases, and all of it by men with big brains and a lot of words. [read post]
12 May 2022, 8:58 am by Heather Szilagyi
A significant question facing the House Select Committee investigating the attack on the U.S. [read post]
3 May 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
One of the most interesting features of some of the testimony before the “Biden Commission” (on which Jack Balkin himself served) was testimony by younger progressives, like Yale’s Sam Moyn or Harvard’s Niko Bowie, who sounded much like James Bradley Thayer in decrying a strong judiciary. [read post]