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

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…

My guest today is Emily Stolzenberg, an Associate Professor of Law and Reuschlein Emerging Scholar at Villanova University’s Charles Widger School of Law. Her research focuses on conflicts between individual…

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,…

John Fabian Witt's latest Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America. Charles Garland's grandfather was extraordinarily wealthy. Garland's optimism was well rewarded. "In a…

Like so many other law prof blogs, like Prawfs and the Paul Caron suite (TaxProf et al), the Faculty Lounge fell victim to the closing of Typepad.  It has taken…

  My guest today is Elaine Perlman, an altruistic kidney donor, President of the Coalition to Modify NOTA, and Executive Director of Waitlist Zero. She is leading campaigns to pass…