MY DAD invited us to come out to the lake for dinner — he said he was having “a few people over” — and to spend the night. So I got there, and the first person I saw when I went out on the deck was perennial InstaPundit “fave” Cornel West, along with Jeffrey Stout and a host of other philosophers, political theorists, etc., one of whom was a delightful woman from Chicago who I believe is Daniel Drezner’s Dean. We had a very nice time, then hung out over brunch with my father this morning. Just got home; regular blogging will resume later.

UPDATE: Drezner informs me that she is a colleague of his, and she is a Dean at U. Chi., but not his Dean. He agrees, however, that she is delightful.