Stephen Ware

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Red Sox are in the Bronx on an October night—good to know with all the craziness in the world that some things continue as they should

When I first glanced at this, I thought it involved a young Paul McCartney

Inflation and immigration

Map shows variation in the average household size experienced by people in 130 countries around the world.

A few years ago, my team looked at household sizes around the world.

The household size experienced by the average person ranged from 2.7 people (in Germany) to 13.8 people (in Gambia).
www.pewresearch.org/religion/201...

Line chart showing that India has long been the most common birthplace for workers whose H-1B visa applications in the United States are approved each year. The chart is based on a Pew Research Center analysis of data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

"Roughly three-quarters (73%) of H-1B workers whose applications were approved in fiscal 2023 were born in India. A majority of approvals every year since 2010 have gone to workers born in India." www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Abolish the FCC FCC The Trump Administration Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) recent efforts to intimidate broadcasters into taking anti-Trump comedians off the air…

Trump's abuses lend additional weight to the great economist Ronald Coase's classic 1959 argument for abolishing the FCC. We don't need a govt agency that licenses broadcasters, and such an agency is inherently dangerous to liberty: reason.com/volokh/2025/...

Listening to Democratic Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro interviewed on a podcast and thinking he sounded more conservative than I would have guessed.

Then I realized it was Ben Shapiro being interviewed.

I read the first half and have some hopefully constructive suggestions. Bravo for the breadth of your research!

I feel this

University of Kansas professor says Trump’s tariffs are xenophobic, unlawful and harmful to U.S. LAWRENCE — A University of Kansas law professor says President Donald Trump’s tariffs against more than 100 countries violate international trade law and harm the United States by undercutting its…

A university distinguished professor of law at the University of Kansas says President Donald Trump's use of tariffs is destroying international trade law and will result in harm to the U.S. economy and global standing.

via @kansasreflector.com

I've repeated this quote before, but Stanley Rosen is reputed to have once said in a grad seminar at BU: "You liberal grad students think postmodernism is cute, but just wait until the right gets a hold of it."

Interesting corporate #arbitration post,

including a Delaware law that makes me wonder about FAA preemption

#USOpen now is a good match, enjoy

This is one of the rare times I’ll disagree. They definitely imagined Trump. Half the Federalist Papers are about Trump.

Woke up early today and took my coffee out to the deck for something I have not felt in months – – a morning chill

A kitten napping on a shelf of DVDs.

This is why physical media is still so important.

The younger nation is not as wise as the mother country but has the flexibility and energy to learn and adapt and persist

Good morning #SEALS2025!

Nice place to present my research on #arbitration agreements in #bankruptcy and other #insolvency cases and to learn about several other areas of law from friends ranging from University of Kansas School of Law colleagues to international visitors

I agree with the first half of this sentence and would like to learn more about the second half

As a daily subway rider, it’s horrifying to see just how indifferent so many people are to forcing their music and videos and calls on other people.

It’s such an obvious thing that the breakdown of that norm really is reflective of the selfish coarsening of our me-focused society.

Roads today full of moving trucks – end of July still common time for leases to end and home sales to close

Some ppl think Detroit is in the Midwest

This view that US has awful elites was I think not widely held on 9/11 but then rapidly gained adherents with the failures of the war in Iraq and then the financial crisis and Great Recession.

Yes, it is typical, but can be a fun distraction for an hour or so that both serves the field and prompts thoughts for one’s own writing

Some of the ppl being deported prob gardeners & housekeepers for the ppl wearing Lulu

Especially when trapped in a cage!

One got in my house in--you guessed it--Alabama

Trapping it and then releasing in the woods was an adventure

Almost Keith Richard level