This is where I'll put my nonfiction--essays, articles, opinion pieces, that sort of thing.

At present, we have one essay concerning what Kant really thought about revolt against the government. This piece won the David H. Yarn Philosophical Essay Contest at Brigham Young University and was featured in the Spring 2004 issue of Aporia, a student journal of philosophy.

The other essay deals with Hume as, well, a proto-existentialist. I had a lot of fun with this essay, it's one of the last ones I wrote as an undergraduate and although it's probably not as academically praiseworthy as my Kantian piece, it's a little more accessible and lot more more fun to read.

I've also posted the casenote I wrote for the BYU Law Review Write-on Competition in the spring of 2006. Everything I've cited, along with a fair bit of other material that I didn't use, was given to me on Monday morning. I read all the material in one day, then spent two full days writing (then I spend a day-and-a-half editing sample footnotes). Since I was invited to join the Law Review staff, and since I can't submit this casenote for publication, and since it's a little out-of-date anyway, I've posted it here for reference and so everyone can see how much fun I had. If you're a law student looking for a model casenote, I'm flattered, but please be aware that some formatting changes have taken place between the final product and the web-readable version (e.g. no "small caps" font).