Sunday, February 18, 2018

The Desert of the Rich

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Other things being equal, people deserve bad things for bad things that they do and good things for good things that they do – that the...
Sunday, February 4, 2018

Were the 12 Angry Men Right?

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In the 1957 classic “12 Angry Men” Henry Fonda finally persuades the other eleven jurors that, although the defendant may well have b...
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Sunday, January 14, 2018

Trump’s Tax Act and Rawls’s Difference Principle

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There is no real controversy that the Republican tax act will redistribute wealth upwards. Its best friends have persuaded themselves...
Tuesday, December 5, 2017

The Attainder Clause Prohibits Senate Expulsion of Al Franken and Roy Moore.

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And Even if it didn’t their expulsion would still be unconstitutional, and even if it weren’t it would still be a sin against sound poli...
Monday, November 6, 2017

The Status of Women in Anthony Trollope's Science Fiction

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Although we are now well past the seventh decade of the 20 th Century, there may still be some instruction in reflecting on the long-r...
Sunday, November 5, 2017

Proving Abandoned and Malignant Heart Murder: The Zarate Case

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The gunshot death of Kathryn Steinle on San Francisco’s Pier 14 in July, 2015, became a chief exhibit in Candidate Trump’s “bad hombr...
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Monday, September 4, 2017

Not knowing what you are sure of: e.g. “π + e is irrational.”

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It is as unexceptionable as philosophical principles ever are that we can claim to have knowledge if, in addition to belief, we have ...