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The Fall
Today was the first day of fall here in Tucson. I’m not sure what the calendar actually marks as the first day of fall but it was the first day where a distinct northerly breeze came rolling off the Catalina Mountains with a hint of crispness to it. I’m sure everyone has their favorite season.…
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Book Review Coming Soon
Once again, I am indebted to my friends at HarperCollins for forwarding an interesting novel my way. I hope to have a review posted within the next week or so. Madeline Miller is a debut author and recent winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction (an award celebrating “excellence, originality and accessibility in women’s writing…
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Reconsidering Paris’s Judgment
I never knew much about Gore Vidal, spare his notable row at the 1968 Democratic National Convention with William F. Buckley, Jr., where Buckley threatened to “sock [Vidal] in the goddamn face.” Here’s a moment of silence for the death of live TV. Naturally, when I heard that Mr. Vidal had himself gone the way of…
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Learning Zen, The Hard Way
Apologies readers for a long delay in posting. I’m glad to say that while I may not have built Pax Plena, and though I may have left it in a somewhat derelict state, the site is, indeed, not dead. My lack of posts can best be summed up as having an over abundance of time.…
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New Scholarship: "A Libertarian Framework for Indian Rights"
This site is long overdue for an update. For now, I’m pleased to share the above post about my work from the Indian Law blog Turtle Talk run by Prof. Matthew Fletcher at Michigan State University Law School. Prof. Fletcher’s website posted a link to my SSRN profile and shared the abstract of my dissertation…
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