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I'm back from my giant transatlantic trip. The schedule was: Depart Portland on Monday Arrive in Stockholm on Tuesday Deliver lecture on...

Everyone in Sweden speaks English. This is not an exaggeration -- English is part of the school curriculum in Sweden, so essentially everyon...

As I approach forty years old, it is natural to reflect on what one gains, and loses, by aging. It is, of course, cliche for a forty-somethi...

The contagion of AI-generated hallucinations in law has reached the federal judiciary. Two district court judges have admitted that opinions...

Today, the First Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision affirming the dismissal of a Title VI lawsuit brought by Jewish students al...

The first two lines of Hillel's famous maxim read as follows: If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, who a...

There is no doubt that one major development in American politics over Israel/Palestine over the last two years has been a dramatic expansio...

One of the interesting things about "equality of opportunity", as a concept, is that while it's often used as a conservative t...

The latest stop in the RFK/Trump team's conspiracy-addled rampage against science was an assertion that "circumcisions" may be...

A few days ago, a viral video circulated of a neo-Nazi agitator interrupting a psychology class at the University of Washington ... and then...

Another day, another AI hallucination story -- this time involving mega-consulting firm Deloitte, which just refunded  a big chunk of change...

As you may have seen, there was antisemitic stabbing/car ramming attack on a UK synagogue on Yom Kippur yesterday . Two Jews were killed (on...

It is another day of milestones for Nathaniel. First of all, we put him in a front-facing stroller seat for the first time. I already miss b...

The big diplomatic news of the week is the rush of longtime Israel-supporting countries -- Canada,  France, Australia, and the UK among them...

We are right now living through one of the most significant rollbacks in First Amendment law since the 1950s. To name a few examples: Univer...

At the start of Terence Crawford's history-making bout against Canelo Alvarez , Max Kellerman remarked that he'd never seen a fight ...

The other day, the Second Circuit in Mid Vermont Christian School v. Saunders  ruled in favor of a Christian private school in Vermont which...