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@kulawschool prof of Alternative Dispute Resolution (int’l and US arbitration, mediation, settlement negotiation), Contracts, Commercial Law & Bankruptcy.

Lawrence, Kansas
Joined June 2013
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I am honored and thrilled to see this review of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘳𝘪𝘮 𝘖𝘭𝘥 𝘋𝘢𝘺𝘴 in @TheEconomist, which calls the book a "rip-roaring rebuttal of the idea that progress is a myth" and a "splendid corrective" to rose-colored views of the past.
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Spotted today in midtown Kansas City. Unfortunately, on some level, you do kind of gotta hand it to this guy
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Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today.
Capitalism has taught us to compete with each other when our greatest strength has always been our ability to cooperate.
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Replying to @cafreiman
Capitalism is the system where businesses are made to compete with each other for the ability to cooperatively transact with you.
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This shouldn't be unexpected in a well-functioning world, but it seems noteworthy that not only were the mid-term elections held, but they were administered without major incident, and the lopsided results are apparently not being questioned by those on the losing side of it.
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It's almost as if catering to Trump is both bad policy and bad politics
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The most accurate world map according to Americans
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The most and least difficult subjects at Penn, according to student reviews:
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Schmitt: Do you believe that a 7 nation army couldn’t hold you back? Jack Smith : That is Jack White
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40 years of globalization:
Vance: "If you are trying to undo 40 years of globalization, it's going to take time to fix that. You have a few tone deaf Republicans who say, 'Shut up if you're pissed off about a $22 burrito.' My response to that is... No. Listen to people who are upset with the state of the economy."
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When The West Wing first aired in my 20s, I couldn't get past the smug-yet-shallow liberal policy lectures. Now, finally rewatching in 2026, I don't even mind that. It’s just refreshing to see (even a fictional) White House actually care about policy and behave like adults.
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There’s no conflict between the view that entrepreneurs are entitled to their wealth and that babies should have food—in fact, societies that enable entrepreneurs to get rich via positive-sum market activity have well-fed populations.
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FOX: You say you're a capitalist, what do you mean? El-Sayed: Capitalism is the process by which we enable supply and demand to allocate capital so that it's the most productive in an economy. We are not in a situation where we have capitalism, we have corporatism.
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Milton Friedman: “A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it…gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”
It’s actually criminal how many of these are gone. Amazon and private equity killed so much of American life.
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It would have been easy for NHJ not to write that desperately sad article about New York City public schools and her decision to send her daughter to a troubled one. I respect her for writing it and for writing it honestly and in a way that wasn’t an exercise in self-flattery.
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A lot of people are jeering at Nikole Hannah-Jones, but it takes guts to (very) publicly admit you messed up. My personal views aside, I don't want to live in a world where people are shamed for admitting they were wrong.
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Trump running on lower gas prices and no more foreign wars and then starting a war with Iran that literallly everyone except Pete Hegseth knew was going to be a quagmire has to be on the shortlist for dumbest political blunders in American history.
gasoline up to $4.434/gal as of tonight, while diesel has climbed to $6.387/gal, according to the latest GasBuddy live view. up from $4.355 and $6.301 last night, and tomorrow will bring more increases to the averages as they play catch up.
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Donald Trump is one of the most anti-American presidents we’ve ever had. He genuinely despises and resents the First Amendment and the fundamental principles of this country.
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People keep saying Trump term II is the most corrupt administration ever, so I built a model to find out if it was true. I took the UN's definition of corruption, turned it into eight criteria and 100 points, and scored the leaders history remembers for looting their countries: Marcos, Suharto, Mobutu, Abacha, Obiang, Putin. Then I put every president since Eisenhower on the same scale, both parties, with every exoneration counted right alongside the convictions. Nixon scored 41 and no other American President scored over a 25. Trump's second term scored a 91, which ties him with Suharto and Mobutu and puts him above Marcos and Abacha. So he is not only the most corrupt president in American history. At this pace he finishes his term level with the most corrupt rulers of the last hundred years. PSA: don't come in my comments arguing about the results if you haven't read the full article, because ignorance is a choice. Full article is up now on my Substack (link in bio) and it's free.
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