Jordan PerkinsAug 5, 20208 minOn Conservatism[I have occasionally been asked to provide a copy of a Twitter thread I wrote roughly a year and a half ago attempting to provide a typol...
Jordan PerkinsJul 16, 202013 minSchumpeter on Marx and Tautological Social Scientific ExplanationThe first part of Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy is devoted to a critical engagement with the ideas of Karl Mar...
Jordan PerkinsJul 5, 20205 minOn Legal and Social Norms, Pt. IIIn a prior essay, I wrote (perhaps too circuitously) about the connection between legal and social norms. This is intended to be a brief...
Jordan PerkinsMay 12, 20208 minOn the Article VI Oath‘Constitution,’ like ‘being,’ is said in many ways. I take this to be the key point for understanding a recent exchange between Adrian V...
Jordan PerkinsApr 17, 20209 minOn Legal and Social NormsOne of the supposed virtues of legal positivism, tracing back a half-century into the foundational debates of Anglophone analytical juris...
Jordan PerkinsApr 3, 20207 minOn the Necessity of a ‘Common Good’: Or, Against OriginalismBy now, most people interested in the intersection of politics and academic law have encountered Adrian Vermeule’s recent piece in The At...