September 2004
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In Memoriam
Lee Teitelbaum (1941-2004) The University of Utah memorial notice for the former Dean of the law schools at both Utah and Cornell is here. UPDATE: And Cornell’s announcement. (Thanks to Douglas Schnell for the pointer.)
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Lighter Blogging the Next Week
I’ve got to finish several letters for PhD students, here and elsewhere, who are on the job market, as well as meet a law-review deadline for revisions to an article. As a result, there will be less new material over the next week, though I’ll still try to put up at least one item most…
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New Legal History Book
A book by my friend Mark Weiner (whom I had the privilege of teaching and getting to know when I visited at Yale Law School back in 1998-99), who is now a legal historian in the law school at Rutgers-Newark, will be published in a few weeks by Knopf: Black Trials uses court cases involving…
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“Illegal” to have Michael Moore Speak on Campus
And no, they don’t mean the criminal law theorist. A philosopher in California calls my attention to this pathetic story: “California State University-San Marcos President Karen Haynes said yesterday that it would be illegal to have Oscar-winning filmmaker Michael Moore on campus before the presidential election. “‘As a public university, we are prohibited from spending…
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And Still More on Political Theory and Political Philosophy
Thom Brooks, who recently completed the PhD in philosophy at Sheffield and is now on the Politics faculty at Newcastle (and who is also editor of the Journal of Moral Philosophy), has more pertinent observations on our issue du jour: “In the UK things work much differently. In general, if a student already has a…
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Has Bush Made Us Safer from Terrorism?
Philosopher Matt Davidson has some answers.
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Political Theory or Political Philosophy, Again
Please note that there are some pertinent updates to the original posting.
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“Masters of Stupidity”
A law professor at another university writes with the following amusing remarks (not to mention nice words, which I get to gratuitously include): “First, my compliments on your ever-interesting blog. Every day brings worthwhile and often horrifying information, expressed wittily and pungently. The swine in the White House shouldn’t seek reelection; he should seek absolution.…
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More on Bush the Student
A philosophy professor writes: “I found your discussion of Bush’s attitudes and performance at Harvard enlightening. The same attitudes seem to be present still. I have a colleague who tells me that W. made an “A” in a philosophy course while at Yale. I have not been able to confirm this. As a philosophy professor…
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The Coming Military Draft in the US, Part 97
Here’s a good summary of the facts that explain why the writing is on the wall, unless there is a dramatic change in current policy (which won’t happen if Bush & his bestiary of madmen are re-elected, and might not happen even if Kerry is elected): “The U.S. Army has acknowledged that they are stretched…
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More steps down the road to fascism: Legitimizing “Preventive Detention”
So things are really looking up in America: the mass media is now circulating an incompetent whitewash of the last great experiment herding suspect racial groups in to concentration camps; the great unwashed are running scared to an incumbent who has been endorsed by the terrorist group he is supposed to protect us from; and…
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The Question of Character
As we all know, George W. Bush is so morally upright that he would never receive oral sex from anyone other than his wife in the Oval Office. That fact, alas, does not exhaust the question of whether he is qualified to hold any job, let alone the Presidency of the United States, based on…
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Watch out for this “undergraduate publication opportunity” scam!
A philosopher at Georgetown reports being asked to forward to the undergraduate majors at Georgetown the following “call for papers”: “Dear Georgetown University Philosophy Students, “The Undergraduate Quarterly is now accepting submissions for publication into the winter 2005 edition of the Journal. Aside of presenting Undergraduate Philosophy students with the rare opportunity to publish their…
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No Wonder Bush has the Saudi Vote Locked Up
First Bush is endorsed by al-Qaeda, now he locks up the support of Saudi Arabia. This is certainly the guy we wanting leading the “war” on Islamic-inspired terror. Anyway, here’s something for our truth-seeking sleuths in the blogosphere to pursue when they’re done with the trivia: “[T]hanks to Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi…
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Why the Self-Congratulatory Blogosphere is Full of Shit
Bloggers, led by Instaignorance, love to congratulate themselves for holding mainstream journalism to higher standards of accuracy, but they, in fact, do nothing of the kind, except when it is trivial and irrelevant (e.g., the attack on Dan Rather of CBS News for using unreliable documentary evidence about Bush’s National Guard “service”, when the facts…
Then my question is how many of ordinary mathematicians also qualify as artists of their profession…