Month: August 2017
A DDOS attack on the mind
The recent media and news cycle has gotten so short that we no longer have time to process the goings on in the world and respond to them before something else happens. We are effectively paralyzed by the amount of incoming activity demanding our attention and we can no longer act as citizens to ensure
The outsize societal influence of judicial selection processes
The specific meanings of the language of the law are not solely determined by the language itself, but by the precedent of the judges who have interpreted that language in the past. The relationship between the law and the judges’ understandings of the law constitutes a huge portion of the effective meanings of the laws