An excellent event: Vermeule identifies an early Scalia who repudiated the textualism and originalism he adopted later; Lessig follows with a brilliant diagnosis of post-realist “suspicion” that makes going back implausible. youtu.be/ajftWFpSLzw

The war on terror has ebbed, not ended.

The Biden administration should takes steps to end the Forever War today, without waiting for Congress. My observations for Just Security:
justsecurity.org/83749/ending-p…

Hugely important | Supreme Court Uphold Affirmative Action - The New York Times nytimes.com/2022/10/26/opi…

Um, thanks for choosing “After Utopia” but don’t imply that Judith Shklar had her mature views then or exempted liberalism from the crisis of fatalism that the book diagnosed. foreignaffairs.com/reviews/books-…

RIP Mike Davis. After it came out that he was transitioning to palliative care, I emailed him to send him my best and let him know about the overwhelming appreciation for him and his work I felt and was seeing across the board. This was his response:

We are so excited to finally share our first recording from the Public Law and Inequality Conference earlier this year. Watch the highly anticipated talk from Professor Samuel Moyn 🔭 (@YaleLawSch) on Sufficiency, Equality, and Human Rights.

youtu.be/sY-EuoePseQ

Embarrassing and sad washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

Well, who am I to disagree? ☺️

Thank you so much, Samuel Moyn 🔭

Congrats Stephanie DeGooyer

“For all its sci-fi flavorings, what commands attention to longtermism is not any compelling case for prioritizing the value of distant exoplanets and centuries, but the billionaire politics it seeks to impose on the rest of us.” newrepublic.com/article/168047…

My Kellogg Lecture on democratic liberty is coming soon: Thursday, October 27th, 3:30 p.m. EDT, Jefferson Building, Library of Congress. Registration required if you’re attending in person. The event will also be available on YouTube:
youtube.com/watch?v=D2INfe…

How sad. Wonderful colleague and person. RIP.

Finally washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…

My article on Hồ Chí Minh's turn to the communist world in 1919-1920 and the myth of a 'Wilsonian moment', published by Cold War Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center's 'Sources and Methods'.
wilsoncenter.org/blog-post/the-…

This essay is equal parts important and frustrating. The motivating idea, that a conception of law that “dissolves” into politics threatens to undermine past democratic decisions is, I think, correct. (1/13)
lpeproject.org/blog/democracy…

Why liberals hate conspiracy theories yet can’t do without them: my contrarian take in the latest issue of Social Research: An International Quarterly. muse.jhu.edu/article/867517…

A terrific review by John Fabian Witt of Jon Meacham's new bio of Lincoln.

washingtonpost.com/books/2022/10/…

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