Richard Kay
@richardkay80
Wallace Stevens Professor Emeritus, UConn Law. Constitutional Law; Comparative Law; Legal History. Boston resident, Red Sox, Celtics fan. (NOT the Daily Mail reporter.)
Then shall our names. Familiar in his mouth as household words Tracy the manager, Masataka and Rafaela, Wong and Contreras, Durbin and Abreu, Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d. This story shall the good man teach his son
"The fewer men, the greater share of honour. . . . I pray thee, wish not one man more."
Is there anything this guy could do to make himself look more fascist?
"I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today: my own government."
"I inherited the worst inflation in history. There was no affordability. Nobody could afford anything.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Let's pray that the new year, 5786, will be peaceful, healthy, prosperous and sweet.
Unmentioned in this review is the Shahn image to which I am most attached. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/a...
Unmentioned in this review the Shahn image to which I am most attached. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/a...
I've been reviewing my work recently on judicial responses to the Revolution of 1688-89.
I've always found the question of whether or not we're in a constitutional crisis kind of meaningless. But today I have the feeling we might be approaching a possibly irreversible moment in our constitutional history. Just fervently hoping this government will step back.
Sensational exhibit of van Gogh's Roulin Family Portraits at Boston MFA.
When Lord Castlemaine complained to Pope Innocent that he would return to England if the Pope were not more sympathetic to King James's request, the Pontiff replied that in Italy, mornings were best for travel.
The gyro returns. Crochet appears up to speed edition.pagesuite.com/popovers/dyn... For more great content like this subscribe to the The Boston Globe app here:
Here's some good news in a dismal season. The truck has left Fenway. @redsox
"The Satanic Temple should not be mistaken for the Church of Satan." Yes, I often get them confused.
Things in #Syria are now wildly uncertain but it is hopeful that in his speech today Abu Mohammad al-Jolani expressed a philosophy of tolerance for the many internal groups. Also that he did not say a word about Israel.