July 2004
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Why Marx Would Have Despised “Critical Legal Studies”
It has long amused me that many inside and outside law think of “Critical Legal Studies” as a Marxist movement. Plainly, within the parochial context of American life, any ideas on the “left” are viewed as Marxist, but in this case the association is particularly wrongheaded. Herewith what I wrote on the subject in my…
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UT Law & Philosophy Program information for 2004-05…
…is now on-line here.
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Metaethics Workshop at Wisconsin
I mentioned this months ago, but now the October metaethics workshop at Wisconsin has a full program here. An exceptional line-up, between the keynote speakers (Peter Railton and Michael Smith, two of the best philosophers in the world) and the conference presenters. I very much wish I could be there.
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Andrew Sullivan, again
I now realize that I’ve been too nice about Andrew “I’m a despicable neanderthal, except when my own interests are at stake” Sullivan. Here is what he said comparing filmmaker Michael Moore and Fox TV pundit Bill O’Reilly: “O’Reilly, at least, has some grip on the truth and on morality.” For my non-US readers who…
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In Memoriam
John Passmore (1914-2004) A memorial notice is here. (Thanks to Matthew Mullins for the pointer.)
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Top Research Universities by Number of “Highly Cited Researchers”
The Institute for Scientific Information compiles detailed data on citations to faculty research in the natural and social sciences, including medicine and law, but not in any of the humanistic fields. Citation counts are always problematic proxies for quality, but across whole universities their limitations presumably even out (presumably, e.g., each major university has its…
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Journalism in the UK and the US
Here’s an astute post by Pharyngula on the difference between here and there, with some fine examples of what pathetic cowards most of our journalists are by comparison to their British counterparts.
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More Suppression and Intimidation of Political Speech
A propos the recent posting on the attack on political speech under the guise of “security,” these stories come via the National Lawyers Guild, from different parts of the nation: 7/23/04 The NYC Chapter notified the National Office today of multiple FBI questioning of activists in relation to the DNC. Agents questioned twenty activists in…
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Right now, there is no reason to believe votes will be fairly counted in the fall election
Details here. Bush is President now because Blacks were illegally disenfranchised in Florida. Next time, the vote theft may be even more brazen…and we won’t even know.
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It’s good to forget…
…especially if you’re a neocon war-monger (or a believer in “humanitarian” wars), as Red Constantino reminds us (footnotes omitted): “We are not supposed to remember that the American Chamber of Commerce described the imposition of martial rule in the Philippines in 1972 as a ‘heaven-sent relief’ and we are expected to forget that, after martial…
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Soldiers React to Farenheit 9/11
These right-wing conmen are busy pushing a story about “soldier Joe Roche” reporting the pained reaction of soldiers to Michael Moore’s movie. (Like the Black conservatives, soldier Joe appears to be bought and paid for, and by the same folks even! His story is being pushed by the “National Center for Public Policy Research,” precisely…
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The Democratic Convention
It is some indication, I suppose, of the desperate political situation in America that a staunch opponent of Republocrats and Demublicans like myself actually watched significant portions of the convention last night. Why? Because I am desperately worried about what will happen if we do not defeat the current criminal war-mongers and theocrats in Washington,…
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Conference on Religion & the Media in Austin
Conference details here; note that veteran, and usually no-nonsense, journalist Helen Thomas is the keynote speaker.
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New Center for Law, Business & Economics…
…at UT, under the direction of my colleagues Bernie Black and Ronald Mann. Information here. Good stuff.
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So much for terrorist dry runs
Well, since I made the mistake of linking to this odd item about new terrorist ploys in the sky, it is time to note that its author turns out to be a busybody bigot, and her story amounted to nought. The fact that she quoted Ann Coulter should have tipped me off to the fact…
I don’t think it’s that the philosophical debates will become irrelevant in your example, so much that your example demonstrates…