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One thing that struck me in this report was the “three body problem” ways in which things become more unstable…
I am a faculty member at ASU. Unfortunately, I can’t say I am surprised by Atomic. During last academic year,…
I don’t know how widespread this *behavior* is, but I know that the legal basis for allowing it to happen…
I think the extremely weird-sounding announced thesis of this piece arises from making a specific decision about how to use…
Let me recommend Eleanor Knox’s essay on IAI a few months ago for what I think is a much more…
There are many places in the essay where I would get off the argumentative train, but here’s perhaps the first.…
…gutting the Voting Rights Act–one of the most decent and successful pieces of legislation aimed at counteracting the sorry history of American apartheid–on the basis of a “race neutrality” detached from reality may be among the worst. Justice Kagan’s dissent makes a lot of the correct points. What a disgrace.
UPDATE: A useful critique by election law expert Rick Hasen.
It may not be what Professor Noll is looking for — or maybe parts are appropriate — but for others…