I love having two of my favorite writers posting on the same blog. Rowe is guest blogging at Sandefur's Freespace this week and the two of them have really been cranking out some great stuff. Sandefur takes on conservatism (real conservatism, not the political variety) and points out the classical liberal foundations of the Constitution. Then Rowe has a brief post on textualism and original intent. Next, Sandefur goes after Robert Bork, much to my delight. Finally, Rowe looks at Judge Posner's recent statements on natural rights and constitutional law. Great stuff, guys.
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As some of you may be aware, over the last couple of weeks Timothy Sandefur and I had a debate on our blogs on the topic of government funding for scientific research. He argued against it; I argued for it. We wrapped up the debate yesterday.
Jason Kuznicki and Timothy Sandefur (back from vacation) have begun a spontaneous debate about immigration. I have to confess that this is a subject I've thought very little about other than having a bias in favor of immigration as a general rule.
Timothy Sandefur has the first in what will be a series of posts by all of us at Positive Liberty about Akhil Amar's new book, America's Constitution: A Biography.
Today is my 37th birthday, as Lynn's comment on the previous post revealed, so I think I'll take the rest of the day off from my grueling blog work. Besides that, I feel like crap and I keep having coughing fits. Oh well, life is good anyway.
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Great stuff indeed. Judge Posner was gracious to guest host on Leiter's blog, and the responses by Jon and Tim to his posts and other issues have been outstanding. This offers quite a contrast to the meaningless blathering over on the ARN web site. B
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Despite my being a raving liberal, I tend to like most of the Posner decisions I read. I share his scepticism at "natural law", though I know more about the NL of Acquinas and Scholasticism than I do of the 18th C. political philosophers. I'm pretty sceptical that NL implies a clear denial of slavery. Perhaps from our point of view it does, but probably not from that of a Founding Father.