August 2004
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A New Academic Law Blog…
…from Pittsburgh law prof Michael Madison here, with an IP/technology focus. Judging from his links, there is also reason to hope that the bizarre rightward tilt of the law blogosphere (Volokh, the San Diego folks at Right Coast, Althouse, Reynolds, Bainbridge) is not being augmented by this latest addition! (The tilt is odd given that…
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Some Thoughts on Nietzsche and Foucault
These are “discussion notes” I prepared for a seminar recently; perhaps they will be of interest to others. Bear in mind: they are merely discussion notes, not a draft of a scholarly paper! (One side note: I take up, below, the topic of Foucault, Weber, and the “iron cage of modernity” alluded to in an…
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Republican Delegates Mock the Troops
Story here. Timely evidence of Mr. Keillor’s point about the Republican Party having been taken over by the lunatic fringe. UPDATE: Vietnam Veterans of American officially object to being mocked by the chicken hawks.
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Are Philosophers Harming Themselves in Fellowship Competitions?
A well-known philosopher who has done reviewing for the National Endowment for the Humanities writes: “Here is an interesting piece of news about how our profession is viewed by Washington, i.e., the NEH. We have the reputation of being the most critical board in the humanities. Perhaps not surprising. But the net result is that…
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Garrison Keillor on the Republican Party
A finely crafted essay here; an excerpt: “Something has gone seriously haywire with the Republican Party. Once, it was the party of pragmatic Main Street businessmen in steel-rimmed spectacles who decried profligacy and waste, were devoted to their communities and supported the sort of prosperity that raises all ships. They were good-hearted people who vanquished…
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More Voting “Irregularities” (or Fraud?) in Florida
Details here. This is extraordinary, and bodes ill for November.
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Some Guest Bloggers Will be Visiting
Starting September 7, and running for a week, philosophers Benjamin Hellie (Cornell) and Jessica Wilson (Michigan) will be taking over here; you can see some of their fine blog work at For the Record. (I’ll be in the UK some of that time, speaking at the “Nietzsche and Ethics” conference at Sussex.) Then, the last…
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Creationist sneaks in to science journal
One of the creationist conmen associated with the Discovery [sic] Institute has an article in a science journal, which, we can be sure, will be broadcast far and wide by the creationist public relations folks. Details on the article and its real merits are here.
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Constituents that count get results!
Details here: “Placing a heavy emphasis on energy production in the American West, the Bush administration has moved aggressively to open up broad areas of largely unspoiled federal land to oil and gas exploration. “The administration has pressed for approval of new drilling permits across the Rocky Mountains and lifted protections on hundreds of thousands…
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“Truthout” Coverage of Republican National Convention has Begun
Here. I’m still waiting for Jimmy Breslin’s first column on those “mean whites from low IQ states.”
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Inside the blogosphere humor: Fafblog nails Instapundit
Here. This is particularly good because it calls him, and so many other blog sites, on the absurd pretense that they are cutting-edge journalists, going where no regular journalist would dare to go. In general, of course, the blogger journalists are simply as trivial, cowardly, and unreliable as the regular kind. The main difference is…
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Publication schedule for Philosophical Gourmet Report, 2004-06
I’m getting a fair number of queries now wondering when the new PGR for 2004-06 will be out. Here’s the tentative schedule. The on-line survey invitations will go out on Wednesday, September 15 to the 454 nominated evaluators, and the data will be collected over roughly a 3-week period. The Report itself will be out…
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New Law Blog…
…”Biz Fems Speak,” featuring female corporate law professors, including one of our distinguished graduates now in academia, Christine Hurt ’93, who teaches at Marquette University in Milwaukee.
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Here’s a Real Story about a Real Draft Dodger
Here is the video of former Texas Lieutenant Governor Barnes apologizing for helping George W. Bush, and the children of other wealthy supporters, avoid the Vietnam War through National Guard service. UPDATE: And Michael Moore has some great ideas here for more ads the Bush Campaign can run: “ANNOUNCER: ‘Mr. Kerry’s biggest supporter, Sen. Max…
There is a lot to reflect on here but, having already commented enough, I won’t. Just one thing on climate…