Episodes

So…the women’s movement got set back by half a century in the last year or two! That was a thing we all got to witness!

I mean, I shouldn’t make light of it, but what else can you do? Freaking Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas are following right along in Scalia’s train of thought, who argued women weren’t guaranteed rights in the Constitution, so all of this was just noise. [Read More]

Hi, fam.

It’s been a while.

I know I’ve tried to start up again once or twice, but things have just been hard. But I’m confident that I’m good to go, this time. Confident enough that we’re doing something special this time. We’re going back to the beginning. [Read More]

We are going to be thinking about Marx and the law for the next few weeks. I’m starting where I’m most comfortable – free speech. But if you join me for the next couple of episodes we’ll be talking about things that are squarely in my research trajectory. A lot of this is coming out of work I’m doing professionally. [Read More]

I had an upsetting experience last week.

You may remember from past episodes that I have been struggling with headaches. This has been going on for months, and if I am being honest, on and off for about a decade. So in August I had a lumbar puncture, or spinal tap, to reduce the pressure in my head. The pressure wasn’t all that high, so there wasn’t too much to reduce, and for a while that seemed to have done the trick. But in the last few weeks my headaches have returned. And sometimes they are bad. This is, of course, really frustrating because I’ve got school, which doesn’t exactly slow down for my discomfort. [Read More]

On Monday NASA’s DART anti-asteroid satellite successfully smashed into a space rock. [Read More]