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The Virtues of George Washington
Almost everyone who met or knew George Washington and wrote about it remarked on his character: his bravery, his modesty, his honesty, his wisdom, his prudence. As the great Boston lawyer and statesman Daniel Webster once said: America has furnished to the world the character of Washington! And if our American institutions had done nothing……
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Congratulations to the LA Dodgers
It came too late at night for the Letters Blogatory “morning edition,” but congratulations to the world champion LA Dodgers for the 4-1 victory over the New York Yankees in the World Series! I hope some of you European readers who haven’t yet gotten the baseball bug got a chance to see some of these……
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What AI “Thinks” About Letters Blogatory
I thought it would be interesting to see how ChatGPT would review Letters Blogatory. So I asked. Here is what it “thinks.” Some food for thought, though I think, maybe wrongly, that I could tell a chatbot wrote it if I didn’t know it in advance. I am curious about what you think about what……
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Case of the Day: Vita v. New England Baptist
The case of the day is Vita v. New England Baptist Hospital (Mass. 2024). It’s not really a Letters Blogatory case, but it’s super interesting anyway. It involves the Massachusetts Wiretap Act, a law that forbids the secret recording of communications. I have served as arbitrator on cases that have raised claims under the Act……
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Have We Learned from the Melians?
The physicist Richard Feynman asked: If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? His answer: “All things are made of atoms.” What sentence about international politics packs the……