- Lies, Uncertainty and Job Interviews. Cultures and lying. Cultures of lying.
- Juan Cole asks, Is Bigotry All Right in Politics?; many people will, alas, not agree with his suggestion that we make certain bigots into pariahs.
- Michael Geist Face To Face With The Great Firewall Of China. (I still claim to be the originator of that term, by the way.)
- Is this the world's most expensive airport cab ride?
- David Bernstein writes something I agree with: Constructive Response to British Boycott of Haifa and Bar-Ilan Universities. (We don't agree often.)
- Mark Kleiman, Jeb Bush and rapists' rights
Recent Bluessky Posts- May I suggest jotwell.com as a very partial substitute? June 4, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Jotwell Lex/Poverty Law: Ezra Rosser, Do Landlord Privacy Rights Trump Voucher Inspections?, JOTWELL (June 3, 2026), lex.jotwell.com/do-landlord-.... June 3, 2026 Jotwell
- Although constitutionally eligible to run for President, Pope Leo XIV is barred by Pope John Paul II's 1980 ruling that priests (and presumably also high-ranking priests) may not run for or hold political office. Otherwise he might win... thehill.com/homenews/adm... June 3, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- I've gotten to the stage where I'm sometimes too depressed to read them. June 3, 2026 Michael Froomkin
- Jotwell Legal Hist: Abdurrahman Atçil, Legal Theory, Law, and Politics: Making Theory Useful, JOTWELL (June 2, 2026) (reviewing Allan C. Hutchinson, Hart, Fuller, and Everything After: The Politics of Legal Theory (2023)), legalhist.jotwell.com/legal-theory.... June 2, 2026 Jotwell
you claim the great firewall line? Cool. The only other semi-net-prominent person I’ve seen using it is Bennett Haselton (or however you spell his name) of Peacefire fame.