My Other Blog

Now that Will Baude has outed me, I thought that perhaps I should tell Lawfare readers that for the last few months I have also been writing on a second blog, called On Labor.  My co-blogger is my Harvard Law School colleague Ben Sachs, a well-known (and excellent) labor law scholar, and we also have many outstanding Harvard student contributors.  Our blog is devoted to studying “the current crisis in the traditional union movement (why union decline is happening and what it means for our society); the new and contested forms of worker organization that are filling the labor union gap; how work ought to be structured and managed; how workers ought to be represented and compensated; and the appropriate role of government – all three branches – in each of these issues.” What do I know about these topics, you might ask?  The short answer is: Not nearly as much as Ben Sachs!  But I grew up in a labor family, I have been thinking about labor issues all my life, and I have been studying them in earnest for a few years now in connection with a book I am writing about Jimmy Hoffa’s place in American history.  (Yes, you read that correctly.) I doubt if there are many Lawfare readers who (like me) are also interested in labor law and policy issues, but if you are out there, please check out the new-ish site.  On Labor cannot, however, be blamed for my light posting on Lawfare during the last few weeks.  Other things have kept me from blogging here, but those other things are now almost cleared away, and I look forward to re-engaging.