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6 Jun 2023, 1:07 pm
Buchanan Frequent readers of Dorf on Law will surely have noticed that I have a pet peeve regarding bothsidesism. [read post]
21 May 2023, 9:00 pm
” Again, for a man whose entire political brand has always been predictability and reassurance—the very brand that turned a 77-year-old politician blessed with precious little charisma into the perfect nominee for a party that wanted to project an air of stability and calm in 2020—the temptation to do the safe thing must be almost irresistible.But why does President Biden apparently believe that not paying the bills is safer than taking money from willing lenders and using… [read post]
Do Law Schools Truly Have to Worry About Students Not Being Able to Handle Real-World Disagreements?
20 Apr 2023, 10:26 am
(pp. 6-7)That was a bit much, but it is possible to put the point in a less precious way. [read post]
28 Mar 2023, 7:38 am
This was helpful, because otherwise I would have assumed that the email had been sent by an especially precious, self-impressed 10th Grader with an overused thesaurus. [read post]
16 Mar 2023, 7:06 am
Buchanan Does it matter whether the people engaged in something potentially offensive know that they are running the risk of causing offense? [read post]
29 Jun 2022, 7:15 am
Buchanan Some non-conservatives have over the last few years complained, with varying degrees of bemusement and bitterness, about "cancel culture" and in particular its impact on American universities. [read post]
1 Mar 2022, 9:35 am
By contrast, Professor Seifter's contribution is based on noting that those of us who are despairing of the future have paid precious little attention to state institutions. [read post]
12 Oct 2021, 9:01 pm
In the balance of this column, I’ll add to the response that Professor Buchanan and I offered to a critic of ours quoted in the Coy column. [read post]
1 Oct 2021, 5:59 am
If there is a genuine dispute over the validity of a certificate in the joint session on January 6, there will be precious little time for the Supreme Court to resolve that dispute in time for inauguration, much less for a smooth transition. [read post]
1 Apr 2020, 9:01 pm
” Instead, they view their remaining years as precious. [read post]
4 Nov 2018, 9:01 pm
The first of the two steps in making that case is based on the observation that we now know with certainty that Trump is every bit as bad as many of us said he would be (and even worse) and that there are precious few things remaining to prevent him from indulging his worst xenophobic impulses and dictatorial fantasies.Back in 2016, and even during the presidential transition into January 2017, there were still plenty of people who confidently asserted that the presidency would change… [read post]
13 Jun 2018, 9:01 pm
When the most powerful man in the world has the attention span of a toddler and the neediness of an insecure teenager—combined with the vindictiveness of a tinpot dictator—there is precious little that one can do to try to focus on serious policy issues.But there is actually a much better reason for everyone to have ignored Social Security, which is that the program is in fundamentally good shape and need not be a policy priority. [read post]
17 Apr 2018, 12:01 pm
In their cover letter to the report, task force co chairs Bree Buchanan, Director of the Texas Lawyer Assistance Program and CoLAP Chair, and James C. [read post]
10 Nov 2017, 5:49 am
The fact that it references some of my favorite political philosophers (as well as others whose work I’m not nearly as familiar): Allen Buchanan, C.A. [read post]
22 Sep 2017, 8:19 am
” Characterized in comparative terms, “Trump is a Frankenstein’s monster of past presidents’ worst attributes: Andrew Jackson’s rage; Millard Fillmore’s bigotry; James Buchanan’s incompetence and spite; Theodore Roosevelt’s self-aggrandizement; Richard Nixon’s paranoia, insecurity, and indifference to law; and Bill Clinton’s lack of self-control and reflexive dishonesty. [read post]
15 Feb 2017, 9:01 pm
(But that would also present another opportunity for Democrats to accuse Republicans of undermining America, allowing Russia-loving saboteurs to “sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. [read post]
16 Nov 2016, 9:01 pm
Normal people walk up, assess the situation, and either join the back of the line or decide to go elsewhere.It turns out, however, that there is precious little holding that social norm together beyond what people expect each other to do. [read post]
6 Jun 2016, 6:49 am
Link to “Native Americans Protest Sale of Artifacts” by Alexis Buchanan here. [read post]
18 Nov 2015, 9:01 pm
The world is still in the early stages of trying to comprehend the horrors that took place in Paris last week. [read post]
11 Sep 2015, 3:30 am
Buchanan The modern university is a precious institution, providing a wide variety of benefits to society. [read post]
