[November 7, 2022] It was no surprise that I was out of town for a few days; offline, but I had expected to keep up with my daily blogging. As the weekend developed, it turns out that the event I attended was a “huge” Italian wedding in New York City; big things happen there. My wife and I… Read More »
[November 4, 2022] Interestingly, human children have the most prolonged dependency period of any animal creature. This makes the social bond between mother and child of primary importance. And from that, we find the importance of family. Around that mother-child bond is the need for a structure for it even to be possible for children to survive the… Read More »
[November 3, 2022] There’s the claim that the West is an oppressive patriarchy. And that is partly true. The problem with the claim is that it’s not just an oppressive patriarchy, and there’s a big difference between something being “completely” something and something being “partly” something. One of the things we might point out is that you can… Read More »
[November 2, 2022] Andrew Kull, a distinguished Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, is a distinguished author. In 1998 he published one of my favorite “intellectual” books of the 90s, The Color-Blind Constitution, which can be appropriately labeled a terrific book. In his book, he lays out the history of how Americans… Read More »
[November 1, 2022] Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard historic arguments on several legal challenges to anti-Asian race discrimination by Harvard and the University of North Carolina. What is most interesting was many “good people” took the position and are standing with those universities in support of policies that support race discrimination. That may be a bit of… Read More »