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What’s the Point?
A hopeful message for soon-to-be lawyers (and everyone else, I guess)
May 27, 2025
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Dan Canon
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It Doesn’t Matter If It Was Staged
Facts, Futility, and the Storytelling Brain
Jul 16, 2024
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Dan Canon
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I Know What’s Wrong with America
It's probably not what you think.
Jul 10, 2024
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Dan Canon
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With fear for our democracy
Jul 2, 2024
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Dan Canon
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It Doesn’t Matter If It Was Staged
Jul 16, 2024
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Dan Canon
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The Story of the Robin
Jun 8, 2024
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Dan Canon
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I Know What’s Wrong with America
Jul 10, 2024
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Dan Canon
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A Sinner Prays for Forgiveness on the Road to the Magic Kingdom
Jun 15, 2024
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Dan Canon
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Why would a lawyer choose to give bad advice?
Jun 30, 2024
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Dan Canon
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With fear for our democracy
Before examining the specifics of her blistering dissent in Trump v.
Jul 2, 2024
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Dan Canon
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Why would a lawyer choose to give bad advice?
I give advice for a living.
Jun 30, 2024
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Dan Canon
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A Sinner Prays for Forgiveness on the Road to the Magic Kingdom
Lost to the ages but clear in my memory is a news story about a Midwestern family with a broken refrigerator.
Jun 15, 2024
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Dan Canon
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The Story of the Robin
Impossibility, archetype, and turdus migratorius
Jun 8, 2024
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Dan Canon
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I Am Pleased to Announce My New Role as Chief Puppy Masher
You can't spell "allegory" without "gory"
May 28, 2024
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Dan Canon
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How to Defend a Dead Pope
In 897, Pope Formosus was put on trial for violation of canon law and perjury.
May 15, 2024
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Dan Canon
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The Cauldron and the Courthouse
On ancient ordeals, modern trials, and imagining a world without courts.
May 4, 2024
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Dan Canon
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