From the monthly archives:

March 2004

Law & Aesthetics

March 25, 2004

– So, from Volokh, I see this announcement of the Law & Aesthetics fiction contest. For those skeptical about the intellectual laugh riot that is the Social Change Workshop, I remember having a somewhat drunken conversation about just this idea with what must surely be one of the Boalt organizers. And now it’s a reality! [...]

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I (Heart) the Social Change Workshop for Graduate Students

March 24, 2004

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[Warning: I'm trying to sell something here. But only because I care.]
So, I’ve been busy creating marketing materials for the seminar I’ve run for the past two summers for the IHS, the Social Change Workshop for Graduate Students (the theme this year is “Rationality & Institutions”), and I found that I’m a bit frustrated [...]

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Epiphanies

March 23, 2004

– When do you stop taking them seriously? It’s been a few years for me now. Same with breakthroughs, flashes of insight, and the like. I remember when I would have a little breakthrough, and become very excited, as if this, this new insight, completes me. Now I know. Everything’s different now. It all makes [...]

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The Shining Pony City on the Hill

March 9, 2004

– Since I consider non-utopian libertarian-ish political theory my niche in the world, I figure I should mention the hoopla over the Epstein, Friedman, Barnett (and Pinkerton arguing about something else) debate. Belle Waring is all “pony pony pony!” Sasha defends ideal theory, but falls short of defending ponies. I want to comment on this [...]

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