Robert Nozick died this morning. There is an obit at the Harvard website (thanks to Glenn Reynolds for the heads up and link). It's a well-done piece--this was obviously not an unanticipated event.

Nozik's Anarchy, State and Utopia was a major influence on my own political thinking (and that, I suspect, of many others).

We've lost a truly great mind today. And the contrast between this "University Professor" and his colleague, Cornel West, is, to me, staggering.