Li’s Supreme Pressure

Victor Li, Supreme Pressure: The Rejection of John J. Parker and the Birth of the Modern Supreme Court Confirmation Process. From the website discussing Supreme Pressure: This book examines the…
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Last Lines of Novels

The Michigan Daily newspaper has a good article (or an amusing one): favorite last lines of novels. For example, The Sun Also Rises has last line: "'Oh, Jack,' Brett said,…
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William E. Nelson

After Dan Filler's post, I would like to add a note marking the recent passing of William E. Nelson. I can remember that Americanization of the Common Law: The Impact…
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HP 9100A Calculator

In 1968 the Whole Earth Catalog reports the HP 9100A calculator was priced at $4900. And the calculator was 40 lbs. Wow.
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Ken Burns’ Revolutionary War

I am in the minority -- I didn't think that Ken Burns' Revolutionary War was not good. And I really regret this, because Ken Burns is really fantastic. American Revolutionary…
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Lynne Cheney’s Ph.D.

I did not realize that Dick Cheney's wife had a Ph.D. Her title was "Matthew Arnold's Possible Perfection: A Study of the Kantian Strain in Arnold's Poetry." And her university,…
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