A letter to President Joe Biden
Dear President Biden, I am an ancient Berkeley law professor, long absent from the classroom but still scribbling, mostly about...
Read More >Give us your poor
“It’s the poor wot gets the blame.” -- Anonymous There seems a fairly common conviction among us that many, even...
Read More >Playing the prophet for choice
“The wisest prophets make sure of the event first.” -- Letter to Thos. Walpole, Horace Walpole Such good advice notwithstanding,...
Read More >The powers that be
It’s the same the whole word over, It’s the poor wot gets the blame, It’s the rich wot gets the...
Read More >A campus of choices
Multitudes in the valley of decision Old Testament, Book of Joel Suppose that the legislature and governor of your state...
Read More >In a word
A word spoken in good season, how good it is! -- Proverbs, the Old Testament The various forms of government...
Read More >From where will common sense emerge?
“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.” -- Macbeth, Shakespeare Our national fuddle over the role of government (public?) schools during...
Read More >Choice and the civic soul
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.” G.B. Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists Shaw’s wit suggests the primary...
Read More >Equality, equity and reality
“I am equal and whole.” A.C. Swinburne, Hertha “There is but one law for all … the law of our...
Read More >E pluribus bonum
“That which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.” John Milton, Areopagitica My thanks to those...
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