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Federalist Society Reflections Before Bed

  1. I doubt I could blog an actual international conflict and make it sound as interesting as PG has whilst blogging the first day's session for Ex Post. Ex Post is certainly the place if you want to know what the fuss is about.

    (She was quite appropriate in linking Prof. Waldron's speech today to the Waldron/Yoo debate held here last year. Waldron's references were torturously unsubtle. It's interesting that Waldron mentioned a passage from C.S. Lewis's The Problem of Pain in his speech. Lewis was also a too-the-core academic writing about why a real society in which practical choices must be made could not live up to an ideal of heaven on earth. I have always rather loved the author of Screwtape, but the quotation brought to mind Waldron's answer to the cursed and "corrupt" ticking-time bomb question, in which the Professor was quite willing to say that even were the loss of millions of lives unnecessary save for the sake of torturing a captive, he would still let the bomb go off. (See here at 29:00.)

    Lewis was a great scholar, a talented writer, and a great moralist, but he'd be one of my dead last choices for congressmen. Philosophers are the only people ever likely to elect philosopher kings.)

  2. I can neither confirm nor deny Will Baude's take on the first panel, but will be certain to post a link as soon as a webcast is available for you to set your own opinion.
  3. There are lots of people here, and lots of things to be moved. I'll blog more later, but it's an early start tomorrow, so I'm off to bed.

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Hello i write for the Daily Telegraph in the UK, Happened across your site when researching a feature I'm doing for our book pages. Would like to get your comments on the Sony if it suits you. need you to reply rather urgently. Thanks M
Yes, yes. But what about Larry Summers? (Reposted after previous deletion)
By the way. Your new system for "screening" comments is an absolute hoot. Of all people, I would least expect this sort of thing from you, Anthony.
Well, "Anon," first of all it would help if you used a real name: then I could set the comment filters to automatically accept you. As it is, comments from "anon" get put in a moderation queue because so many of them are spam. As you may have noticed, I'm quite busy at the moment and not blogging so much: it takes me a while to get to the comments. (True, though, MT-Blacklist was a much more convenient way of limiting spam. Spamlookup requires a lot more of me.) Anyway, I have no idea how Larry Summers is relevant. What exactly are you trying to say?

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