C. S. Lewis, a line that changed how I think about morality

An honest review of every Belgian city I have visited so far🧵 All photos by me :))

snoopy image of the day

Is Loper Bright a true revolution in US administrative law, or an example of “nothing ever happens” in action. Come find out by reading my friend Adrian Vermeule new paper ⬇️

Christmas comes to ⁦Bodleian Libraries⁩

For some thoughts pn Ostrom’s account of the nature of institutions, see this recent paper: academic.oup.com/cje/advance-ar…

Modern university

How every house should look

It’s really not that hard: Read books. Discuss them with humans. Write something down if you want.

Happy Birthday to the Professor 💕

Happy to see that my article on the history of common good constitutionalism has finally been published in the St. Thomas Journal of Law and Public Policy St. Thomas Law (MN) researchonline.stthomas.edu/esploro/output… thanks to Adrian Vermeule Conor Casey for their comments and encouragement on earlier drafts. The usual disclaimer applies.

I've posted Governing the Company Town (revised), which contextualizes contemporary enclaves—like Elon Musk's TX municipal incorporations, Disney's FL special district & global private city movements—within a longer history of capital-governed communities: bit.ly/4hi449O

Henry Cavill is the MVP

There is a type of American conservative legal figure I’ve encountered who I find a bit ridiculous. This is the kind who put rhetorical emphasis on caring what the Founding generation thought about the nature of law and the point of politics, but who then take glee in denigrating

My politics is whatever this is.

I got more wrong than I did right re: teaching this academic term, but one positive is that I did not make my students buy another commercial textbook