The Supreme Court’s decision in 2015 has no more settled the dispute about so called gay marriage than its decision in 1973 settled the dispute about abortion. Both operas continue, and ought to.
"Why don't you call me?" The young have never communicated with their elders as much as their elders have wished that they would. Lately, though, the generational schism has widened. Oldsters who don’t keep up with the electronic fads of the young are excommunicated with a shrug.
“I keep up with my friends through Facebook, Ma."
More and more people want to be paid for their goods and services in cash instead of by checks or credit cards. Why? Obviously, to avoid onerous taxes. Cash can’t easily be traced.
As the shame and terror in Afghanistan unfold, every day worse than the last -- as we watch the president of the United States crumbling before our eyes -- the reasons for calling him a coward seem compelling. For three reasons, I resist joining this cry.
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I’ve just posted the audio recording of a talk on “The Architecture of Law” that I gave to the Sołek Academic and Cultural Center, Poznań, Poland, in June, 2021. It’s the first item on the Listen to Talks page of this website, and yes, it’s in English, not Polish.
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Sołek Academic and Cultural Center, Poznań, Poland, June, 2021. To follow along without slides, view this diagram of the architecture of law.
Elmo is trying to find a missing Constitutional rule. It’s one of the following seven, but they are all so similar! Can you help Elmo pick out which judicial doctrine is correct?
a. A baby may be killed in a house, but not on a street.
b. A baby may be killed in a park, but not in a museum.