Walter Bronkite
@WalterBronkite
Retweets ≠ endorsements. Tweets = ordinances of reason for the common good, made by me, and promulgated.
“Free markets,” whatever that even means, aren’t a “value.” They’re an instrument, to be used precisely up to the point they make the lives of the citizenry better, and not an inch farther.
Don’t you stand for American values? I thought free markets is one of them. Care to explain why this is different? Highest quality work, at the lowest prices, always wins. That’s what we do.
Tell me you've never read any Catholic theology from medieval Europe without telling me you've never read any Catholic theology from medieval Europe.
"Economics today resembles Catholic theology in medieval Europe: a rigid doctrine guarded by a modern priesthood who claim to possess the sole truth. Dissenters are shunned. ... Neoclassical economics has become the Aeroflot of ideas." Much truth in this.
“[The Founders] drew upon a tradition of writing that ran back from Locke to Hooker to Aquinas to Aristotle; … even though their language was often the language of ‘moderns,’ their conception of the ends of government was critically affected by a classic understanding.” –…
Instruction in the liberal arts, in moderation and to the point, produces lively, persevering, and refined lovers of truth. Their aim is ardently to desire, constantly to pursue, and eventually lovingly to cling to what is called, Licentius, the happy life” (St. Augustine, On…
Conservatives have cause to celebrate recent wins at #SCOTUS, but many fall subject to one critical problem. In this episode of Natural Law Moment, co-host @Prof_GBradley calls attention to the patterned shortcoming in today's "conservative constitutionalism." What is it? Find…
Goodnight, all. Friendly reminder before you tuck in: “When stated at a high level of generality, originalism becomes a vacuous commitment that allows interpreters to implement abstract concepts written into the Constitution, such as ‘liberty’ and ‘equality,’ in ways that are…
Goodnight, all. Friendly reminder before you tuck in: “To attribute meaning to a text requires some conception of the authors’ rationality and of the subject they are addressing, at what level of generality, and such a conception is always normatively laden.”
xAI's mission is to advance the understanding of the true nature of the universe through maximally truth-seeking.... Grok is the most trusted AI in the world..
xAI's mission is to advance the understanding of the true nature of the universe through maximally truth-seeking.... Grok is the most trusted AI in the world..
“[T]here is nothing fresher, or more renewing, than the discovery of older truths, which used to be firmly settled.” – Hadley Arkes (@HPArkes_ of the @JamesWilsonInst), “The Return of George Sutherland” p. 281 (1994).
Kafka puts down his pen, unable to compete with the British legal system
“Biological sex is just a belief.” —Jane Russell KC, counsel for NHS Fife. She repeatedly objected to witnesses calling Dr Upton “a man,” arguing that was merely a belief—not a fact. 📄 (11/15)
Goodnight, all. Friendly reminder before you tuck in: “To attribute meaning to a text requires some conception of the authors’ rationality and of the subject they are addressing, at what level of generality, and such a conception is always normatively laden.”
Goodnight, all. Friendly reminder before you tuck in: “[T]he ‘law’ (ius) itself includes considerations beyond the enacted text (lex). The background principles of ius themselves enter into and help to determine the meaning of lex.”
Both sad and funny to recall the content of the voluntary school prayer that SCOTUS, in Engel v. Vitale, said crossed the constitutional line
In which @kevincwalsh and I discuss Providence and godlessness in America with Prof. Steve Smith in his new book. Listen in! humanperson.law.edu/providential-r…
Natural law jurists? I’m running out of things I voted for tbh
CONGRATS ZACHARY BLUESTONE, James Wilson Fellowship ‘17, ON HIS CONFIRMATION TO THE FEDERAL BENCH!
Natural law moment indicator: the Senate just confirmed the first federal judge from the @JamesWilsonInst, founded by the great Hadley Arkes to advance natural law principles. Excited to see Judge Bluestone’s contributions to American jurisprudence!
CONGRATS ZACHARY BLUESTONE, James Wilson Fellowship ‘17, ON HIS CONFIRMATION TO THE FEDERAL BENCH!
I think -- am I wrong? -- that this sentence (from the just-announced Trump v. Wilcox) is the most extensive and important explanation for how and why Supreme Court interim orders are vertically "binding": "Although our interim orders are not conclusive as to the merits, they…
CONGRATS ZACHARY BLUESTONE, James Wilson Fellowship ‘17, ON HIS CONFIRMATION TO THE FEDERAL BENCH!
Confirmed, 49-47: Confirmation of Executive Calendar #259 Zachary M. Bluestone to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri.