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In a recent post, blog-neighbor Mark Olson turns the Problem of Evil around. The claim is that theodicy is an intractable problem for the ...

Freud was wrong about just about everything. One thing he got partly right, though: the death drive, most prevalent in middle school studen...

According to Vlatko Vedral (who's been mentioned here before ), the universe is a quantum computer . Over the last two decades, a flouri...

Regarding LD in general, and the jury nullification resolution in particular, a reader writes, Mr. Anderson, Hey there! I had a great teach...

This Monday afternoon found the legislature in special session. Sign things will wrap up quickly: on a warm March day, the Capitol parking ...

The last time I blogged about the nationalization of American education: a year ago, almost exactly . A year ago, it was ratcheting-up-rhet...

Add this to the list of things that make humans exceptional: we are exceptionally bad at probability. Worse than pigeons, in fact.

I pity young folks. Cursed with the most incredible technology, it's no surprise that they are online, or at least plugged in, more tha...

Is the principle of jury nullification a just check on government power ? In an article titled "License to Nullify: The Democratic and ...

The most powerful man in America, at the moment, is a parliamentarian . As Democrats try to salvage health care reform, there is one man who...

Never was so much Rube Goldberg given to so many by so few. [via Scott Tobias. ]

A while back I noted a few legislators' novel idea to raise revenue: ads on public school buses. Today, Slog reports that both such bill...

Regarding the jury nullification LD resolution , I'd like to share a few more snippets from William Dwyer's In the Hands of the Peop...

To the list of things that don't actually keep you from getting sick--chugging vitamin C, downing homeopathic remedies, using Airborne, ...

If you're studying the March / April jury nullification resolution , you might want to check out William L. Dwyer's In the Hands of ...

Sometime later today, or early tomorrow, this blog will hit a million pageviews. It's hard to believe. For big blogs with multiple auth...

Regarding the jury nullification resolution , the affirmative has to show why the practice is not only a check on government power, but a ju...

[Regarding the March/April jury nullification resolution .] What is the right and proper role of a jury? Proponents of nullification like t...

Concerning the March/April jury nullification resolution , Nancy S. Marder's "The Myth of the Nullifying Jury, " found in the ...

The following is a list of possible value / criterion pairs for the jury nullification resolution. A couple questions to kickstart your thin...