April 29, 2022February 27, 2025Uncategorized The Germans The most civilized nations of modern Europe issued from the woods of Germany; in the rude institutions of those Barbarians we [received] […]
April 23, 2022February 27, 2025Uncategorized Shakespeare, Law and Literature. See from some years ago a post by Dan Ernst in Legal History Blog on “Law and English Literature“. Ernst reviews and […]
April 23, 2022February 27, 2025Uncategorized Jack Kerouac: James Dean of American Letters Jack Kerouac’s 97th birthday was on Saturday, April 17. Almost missed it. Since you all talk about the work that made him […]
April 17, 2022February 27, 2025Uncategorized Charles Clapp’s “The Congressman.” What do members of Congress really do, anyway? What have they done traditionally? True, staffs are bigger now–but much of life on […]
April 1, 2022February 27, 2025Uncategorized Apologies to Judge Jackson 4/1/2022 I apologize to everyone for labeling Judge Jackson high-end free-pass affirmative action Ivy League kitchen help. That was wrong. We should […]