What I’m Doing Recently
I’ve not blogged much the last week or so but I’ve been reading; I wish I engaged more material faster as often the dearth of my posts is due to my feeling that I’ve not engaged enough material from different viewpoints.
For BestLawTalks lately I’ve been reading Antonin Scalia’s A Matter of Interpretation. I started Stephen Breyer’s Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution but I’d have to say that I fall far closer to Scalia’s viewpoint of textualism and questioning the Twentieth Century application of “due process.” On the topic of due process and common law I’m still reading Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr’s The Common Law.
For BestMoneyTalks I’ve been more into reading about economic systems such as Keynesian, Austrian and neo-Classical. I find that these types of material, especially Austrian or von Mises content, lead to study in socio-political philosophies like Libertarianism. Questioning the source and definition of concepts like money or property can have impact on attitudes individual responsiblities and freedoms versus corporate or social responsibilities and freedoms. Some of these thinkers engaged concepts like the State so studies in these areas brings more content into the review process.
