Frank Wilhoit

Francis "Frank" Wilhoit (born July 17, 1958) is an American composer. Initially self-taught, he then studied composition at Catholic University of America (B.Mus., 1980), the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (M.Mus., 1983) and Ohio State University (Ph.D., incomplete, 1987).

Wilhoit and John Webber co-founded the Shoestring Orchestra (1979, subsequently the New Music Orchestra) to perform unfamiliar orchestral music of the 19th and 20th Centuries.

Wilhoit's law

An excerpt from a comment Wilhoit wrote in 2018 on the political blog Crooked Timber has come to be known as "Wilhoit's Law".

"Wilhoit's Law" is regularly misattributed to Francis M. Wilhoit (political scientist, died 2010).

Slate interviewed Frank Wilhoit in 2022 on his comment and the misattribution.

Others have pointed out the misattribution, including Jason Kottke in 2021.