Our Existential Moment

Here at Adam Smith, Esq. our robust, and for 20+ years inviolate, policy has been never to comment on current affairs.  That ends today. We value no civic principle more highly than the primacy of the Rule of Law. And we have long had the luxury of being able to take... read more +

LawLand’s Newspeak, or, Our Perversion of English

Pop quiz: What language has no words for "democracy," "science," or "religion?" While you're mulling that one over, with apologies to one of the great English language rhetoricians and bromide-busters of the 20th Century, George Orwell (1903--1950), we have often...

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Summer Reading List

This column is becoming something of a tradition, and traditions must be maintained. On my desk, and thereabouts, these days: Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, Niall Ferguson Why bureaucratic and complex systems, which seem to promise reliability and predictability,...

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Leadership Notes From All Over

We'll be brief. Two thumpingly different examples of leadership behavior crossed my desk in the past 24 hours, one unforgettable in its inspirational caliber and the other equally memorable, but for the "frogmarch-that-person-to-the-door" response it called forth. The...

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