tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post7263551832324984422..comments2024-03-06T03:15:58.539-05:00Comments on <b>THE NEW REFORM CLUB</b>: Ranking Legal Authors (not just academics): HeinOnline's "ScholarRank’s Top 250 Authors" -- 2017 DataHunter Bakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14961831404331998743noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-54521646863493962322017-07-05T23:23:36.066-04:002017-07-05T23:23:36.066-04:00Shouldn't "late 17th or early 18th centur...Shouldn't "late 17th or early 18th century" should be "late 18th or early 19th century"? Gibbon's dates were 1737-1794.djfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448255075063582987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-47871347465466851352017-06-27T18:54:46.741-04:002017-06-27T18:54:46.741-04:00hey, I'm a fanhey, I'm a fanTom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-9515471230759002252017-06-27T02:35:09.729-04:002017-06-27T02:35:09.729-04:00Tom--I appreciate your promoting my publications. ...Tom--I appreciate your promoting my publications. thanks. sethSeth Barrett Tillmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15597182448693278803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8776899.post-1218986750047612092017-06-26T20:31:25.896-04:002017-06-26T20:31:25.896-04:00SB Tillman vs #110 Geoffrey R. Stone, a militant s...SB Tillman vs #110 Geoffrey R. Stone, a militant secularist, is hilarious<br /><br />https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2318540<br /><br /><br />I could go on and on and on . . . but here is my favorite, the pièce de résistance . . .<br /><br />Geoffrey R. Stone, The World of the Framers: A Christian Nation?, 56 UCLA Law<br />Review 1, 21 (2008) (emphasis added) (quotation marks omitted):<br /><br /><i>Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire was literally put<br />to the torch at Harvard because of its uncomplimentary interpretation of<br />early Christianity.</i><br /><br />The trouble with this book-burning story is that it never happened. And if Stone could<br />believe that late 17th or early 18th century Harvard (!) Congregationalists (!!) and<br />Unitarians (!!!) had a book burning, then—in my opinion—he has pretty poor<br />judgment. No doubt, it is a considerable and time-consuming responsibility to review<br />National Security Agency conduct and policy. I hope that Professor Stone’s new<br />responsibilities will leave him with sufficient time to check his sources in his future<br />academic publications.Tom Van Dykehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07121072404143877596noreply@blogger.com