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The "Myth" of natural human goodness

David Brooks column on Sunday really agitated me. It's thesis: "Sometimes a big idea fades {...} until it has almost disappeared. Such is the fate of t…

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Evan is podcasting again!

I just discovered that Evan Brown has started up his Internet Cases Podcast again. Episode 25 comes after a 1-year hiatus and he jumps in with a quick discussio…

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Remix and Fairness

Professor Robert Merges has commented recently on the remix debate, making the point that present copyright law should not be fundamentally changed in order to…

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Internet at the next Ocean Tomo IP Auction

For the past year I’ve tracked the series of Ocean Tomo Patent / IP Auctions.  The third in the series occurs April 2007 in Chicago, and I just received the cat…

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From Obama's announcement

It's clear he understands the importance of healing the divide: "...it's not the magnitude of our problems that concerns me the most. It's the…

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Politics and personality

From an interesting article in the Times by Patricia Cohen: "For anyone who assumes political choices rest on a rational analysis of issues and self-intere…

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Jeff Rosen on the Daily Show

Last night my old constitutional law professor, Jeffrey Rosen, appeared on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, perhaps one of the best comedy programs on televisio…