No serious scholar or philosopher--as opposed to a self-promoting poseur (not pensuer) like Levy--would have made this mistake: When France’s most dashing philosopher took aim at Immanuel Kant in his latest book, calling him “raving mad” and a “fake”, his...

Go New Orleans! The Little Engine That Could! WaPo: At the moment the Saints won the Super Bowl and New Orleans would never be the same, they spilled through the doors of Sidney's Saloon at the corner of St. Bernard Avenue and St. Claude. They jumped and they danced and they hugged and they shou ...

In this Case Egnotovich v. Katten Muchin Zavis & Roseman LLP, 604101/06 , Decided January 23, 2008 ,Justice Bernard J. Fried NEW YORK COUNTY ,Supreme Court Plaintiffs joined a vacation club in which they each deposited $ 400,000, and the group was to purchase or lease apartments or houses in pri ...

Financial reform efforts continued on capital hill this week with testimony about the so-called Volker Rule which some call Glass Steagall lite. SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro met with her counter parts at the FSA in London to discuss coordination on topics such as rating agencies and hedge funds. The ...

Frank Bajak, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Ten U.S. Baptist missionaries were charged with kidnapping Thursday for trying to take 33 children out of Haiti to a hastily arranged refuge just as officials were trying to protect children from predators in the chaos of a great eart ...

The event I went to in New Orleans was a about I don’t know a great deal about Hobbes, and I found the conference extremely thought-provoking (as always with Liberty Fund conferences). A couple ideas, few of which are original with me: Liberty Fund conference Thomas Hobbes’ . Leviathan H ...

In finishing a short article about Bernard Madoff, I recently read Ponzi's Scheme:  The True Story of a Financial Legend by Mitchell Zuckoff.  What was very interesting about this day-by-day account of the summer of 1920 was the fact that Carlo/Charles Ponzi seemed to really think that he could figu ...

Does anyone care at all about the Middle District?I guess so, since sometimes we have to go up there and litigate cases and all.So I suppose you heard about the fight over the potential MD FL US Attorney selection:The accusations against one include an extramarital affair with a subordinate, helping ...

The new season of "Damages" begins tonight on FX (10 pm ET). It's a fictionalized version of the Bernard Madoff case (without using their names of course.) The New York Times explains and gives it a big thumbs up, especially for Lily Tomlin who plays the financier's wife. Rose Byrne is n ...

The Chinese Sovereign Wealth Fund has emerged at the end of last year as a powerful force in private markets. A review of its activities during the last six months suggests the way in which state policy, political objectives for economic activity can be harmoniously mixed with profit maximization t ...