“From the beginning of his time as a Justice, you could see Stevens’s roots in the New Deal Court and his willingness to justify an expanding welfare state,” Richard Epstein, a libertarian-leaning law professor at New York University, said. [read post]

  Rick Hills recently related his experience of eating in a former slave market, and questions the lack of slavery landmarks in the U.S., Anyone who has read Walter Johnson’s searing account of the New Orleans slave markets can imagine that eating inside a slave market can have the chilling feeling of eating inside, say, a barracks at Dachau… Slavery’s physical landmarks and artifacts seem mostly invisible in th[e] realm of public history…… [read post]

Here's my post about Wolfram Alpha and what happens when you ask it for "the Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. [read post]