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The categories are Economics, Free Speech, History, Law, Living, Mathematics, An Old Man’s Stories, Religion, Writing, and Miscellaneous
Economics
WOO X, The Next FTX? (2023)
Sam Bankman-Fried's Laughable Business Operation of FTX: My Comments on the First Interim Report (2023)
Free Speech
Peter's Arrest (2022)
Student Surveillance Software: Speech First v. Virginia Tech (2023)
A Fisking of the 11th Circuit Opinion in Florida vs. Big Tech (Netchoice v. Moody (2022)
The Yale Law School Protest and Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance (2022)
The Bloomington Fourth of July Parade, with Particular Attention to Candy-Throwing Technique and the Toleration of Opposing Views (2023)
History
Law
Student Surveillance Software: Speech First v. Virginia Tech (2023)
Part I of "Hunter Was Too Clever by Half": The Plea Bargain (2023) and Part II of Hunter Was Too Clever by Half: Judge Noreika (2023) and Part III of "Hunter Was Too Clever by Half": After the Special Counsel Appointment (2023) and Hunter Biden Federal Prosecutor Questions (2023)
Everyday vs. Fancy Lawyering (2023)
Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard: The "Asians Have Bad Personalities" Case (2023)
Equities Should Have Been Balanced in the 2023 Abortion-Drug Litigation: A Civil Procedure Post (2023) and Balancing Equities and the Abortion Pill Cases, Part II (2023)
Grammar at the Supreme Court (2023)
A Fisking of the 11th Circuit Opinion in Florida vs. Big Tech (Netchoice v. Moody (2022)
The Paxton v. Netchoice Stay Application As an Example of Clever Lawyering and Bad Procedure (2022)
My Tightened Version of the Dobbs Draft Abortion Opinion Leaked from the Supreme Court (2022)
A Game Theorist's View of How Billionaires Might React to Twitter's Anti-Musk Poison Pill (2022)
The Yale Law School Protest and Karl Popper's Paradox of Tolerance (2022)
How the Ellsberg Paradox and Unknown Unknowns Apply to the Supreme Court's Stay Grant in NetChoice v. Paxton (TechLords v. Texas) (2022)
Living
Psalted Psathyrella Snacks (2023)
The Bloomington Fourth of July Parade, with Particular Attention to Candy-Throwing Technique and the Toleration of Opposing Views (2023)
Mathematics
The Two-Envelope Paradox: Stated but Not Resolved (2023) and The Two-Envelope Paradox Resolved (Part II) (2023)
Part I of "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General": A Math Commentary (2023) and Part II of "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General": A Math Commentary (2023)
How the Ellsberg Paradox and Unknown Unknowns Apply to the Supreme Court's Stay Grant in NetChoice v. Paxton (TechLords v. Texas) (2022)
An Old Man’s Stories
Blood on My Doorstep (An Old Man's Stories, I) (2022)
Religion
Sam, Sin, Salvation (2022)
How to Make a Christmas Card (2022)
Peter's Arrest (2022)
Writing
Psych Ward by John Isbell (2023)
An Exercise in Style (2023)
Invective (2023)
Noah B.'s Triangle Poem (2023)
Substack and Magazines, Online and Off (2022)