Too busy to read? Fine—I will read for you. Listen as though your soul’s life depends on it, because, in fact it does. 

Herewith, Book II of Homer’s Odyssey. 

See: LAL #020 for my reading of Book I.

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I’ve a confession: Months go by without my ever turning on the television; I cannot recall the last time I watched cabl

Big news! 

Next week, Law and Legitimacy will conduct its first guest interview! We’ll aim to interview at least one person a week in a long-form format. 

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I’d prefer to have option to be armed. In an era in whic

I’ve a confession: Months go by without my ever turning on the television; I cannot recall the last time I watched cable news. I see the talking heads, and I think Macbeth:

Brooklyn prosecutors rushed a prosecution to trial involving alleged “true threats” against federal officials. They did so for political reasons. That should worry everyone who cares about freedom of speech.

One such law is a federal statute m

I support the religious exemption to childhood vaccination and I will happily fight for repeal of the law abolishing it in Connecticut. 

The law scares me. It should scare you, too. Who gets to decide the goals by which you live your life? Certainly not the state.

Police reform is easy. It starts with an act of Congress requiring each and every shooting death case to be heard by a jury. Let the people decide what is and is not reasonable.

We get the government we deserve, but that doesn’t mean we should accept whatever is dished out in the name of justice. When government fails, we the people should have the right to demand reform. 

I think meaningful reform in the area of policing starts with the federal judiciary. The fact of the matter is t

Social media companies enjoy the benefit of immunity from suit for the things they publish, thanks to Section 230 of the federal Communications Decency Act. 

Known commonly as "Section 230", this federal legislation gives the social media giants enormous competitive advantage over traditional media, who are not granted immunity.

Adam Smith published "Wealth of Nations" in 1776—the same year that Thomas Jefferson composed the Declaration of Independence. 

The two events are unrelated, of course, and, of the two works, I suggest that Smith’s has been the more influential.

Smith asserted that an unregulated economy in which each individual were free to pursue their own sense of what was good for them, their utility function, would yield the maximally efficient distribution of goods and services. Smith argued

Recall Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, written in 1852? It helped galvanize abolitionists in the 1850s.

In an era of Black Lives Matter, where largely affluent white folks have taken a loud and vocal leadership role, it’s time to ask whether

The verdict in the Derek Chauvin case was swift and unanimous: guilty on all counts. 

I would have acquitted, and, candidly, I think I would have won the case if I tried it, but … Attention now focuses on Mr. Chauvin’s appeal and post-conviction remedies. 

He stands an excellent chance of winning a new trial on the basis of the trial courts refusal to grant his request for a change of view. 

He tried his case in a fortress before jurors who had every reason to beli