It is literal violence against the English language to use literal as a synonym for figurative.

Hereby my introductory post with brief synopsis of ideas and intro to posts. I am deeply indebted to contributors for their thoughtful engagement & critique and expanding on ideas in book Confronting Colonial Objects: Introducing Debates opiniojuris.org/2024/04/16/sym… via Opinio Juris

Fantastic song -- Vampire Weekend, 'Oxford Comma.' For the record, though, I care... youtube.com/watch?app=desk…

Spot on from Prof Ben Saul - UN SR Human Rights & Counterterror, the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights and Counterterrorism.

Remarkable that Ignatius can write this entire column without once mentioning that Israel would blatantly violate the jus ad bellum if it used force at this point to deter Iran.

This is going to be a fantastic symposium, with more than a dozen posts from a variety of perspectives.

More evidence (as if it was needed) that the capybara is the world's most perfect animal.

A headline from 24 years ago.

It is endlessly entertaining when an anonymous tweeter with a blue check and seven followers demands that a high-profile person produce evidence specifically for him (and it's almost always a him) that proves the high-profile person's (usually obvious) point.

In the case of #MKULTRA , I think it is safe to say it was a real conspiracy

This looks great! Going to the top of the summer pile.

(Later, of course, the Philippines would suffer America's trial run for Vietnam -- Gen. Ed Lansdale's suppression of the Hukbalahap Rebellion in the early 1950s. That history has also been largely sanitised or forgotten.)

If said person actually asks a question, this conference is much better than the ones I have attended.

What an incredibly cool job Sciences Po! I hope this is the first of many such positions law schools around the world create.

Track of the day: 'Red Light (Shine),' Danse Society. youtube.com/watch?v=tNxgOi…

Wow, the final episode of The Regime cites the Rome Statute -- and gets it right! (Article 6, genocide.) It even correctly calls it 'the Rome Statute.'

'If Kagame is not stopped, the M23 will turn Goma – and, by extension, South Kivu’s provincial capital Bukavu... into a pressure cooker of disease, starvation and despair that many defenceless Congolese people will not be able to escape.' - Vava #CongoIsBleeding Tampa theguardian.com/global-develop…

Can anyone guess what this is?

Yes, that’s right - it’s my university’s reimbursement portal.

The #GOP , the party of family values.