DAVE KOPEL: Fred Thompson 1, United Nations 0. Plus this: “It’s been a long time since a major presidential candidate quoted Grotius, and my view is the more Grotius in America’s public debates, the better. I hope Pufendorf starts to get some attention too.” Apparently, Thompson was listening in law school. Plus, this observation: “It’s rather telling that the UN’s American defenders fail to directly address an indisputable fact: U.N. Human Rights Council’s subcommission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights has endorsed a report denying the existence of a human right of self-defense.”