A personal update for the end of the year...

This one will be brief, especially considering that it's only been two months since my last update and it's been tough going lately.

In terms of scholarly activity, the last two months were about:

1. Completing final production work on Economics and the Virtues with Jennifer A. Baker, including a blog post at OUPblog referencing the new movie The Big Short.
2. Editing chapters for my collected volume The Insanity Defense.
3. Attending and participating (very lightly) in a conference on the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta presented by the Classical Liberal Institute at NYU School of Law. You can watch my small contribution, chairing the final session featuring Richard Epstein and Mark Koyama, here (Koyama) and here (Epstein).
4. Reviewing the copyedited manuscript of my book on Marvel Comics' Civil War (the title of which I still have to decide on).
5. Writing a paper on merit goods and nudges for a special journal issue (now under review).
6. Working on a proposal for a very exciting new edited book, on which I hope to hear final word next month.
7. Working on a paper on patients' rights and autonomy for the Mercatus Center (a rough draft to be finished by the end of the year).
8. Preparing a talk on Kant and finance for an Association for Social Economics session at the 2016 ASSA meetings next week in San Francisco.
9. Doing a lot of reading for the new book I'll be starting after the ASSA meetings are over.

Other than that, I wrote two new posts (and hosted one guest post) at Psychology Today:

1. "Sexual Equality: Are You in the 1 Percent or the 99 Percent?", a guest post by my good friend and fellow philosopher Patricia Marino.
2. "Does the Impostor Syndrome Apply to Relationships?", inspired by an insightful comment on a previous post.
3. "How Do You Answer the Question, 'What Do You Do?'", about why I am uncomfortable calling myself a writer.

I'll write up my 2015 summary soon, while I finish the Mercatus and ASE/ASSA papers... and pack for San Francisco.

In the meantime, I'll let my friend have the final word...