May 2006
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Friday Poem: “Memorial Day Bogota NJ 5/25/98”
Memorial Day Bogota NJ 5/25/98 Angela and Alessandra squat in the gutterSenseless of the (now) heroic dead among usFor whom the whispered speeches take the air And mingle with the patient shifting feetOf hunched auditors standing huddledIn the moist hollows of this gentle bower Concetta and her sister conscriptsSoftly speak the elegiac linesThat grant each…
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New Paper: “Why Tolerate Religion?”
I have posted a new paper–the subject of my ‘Or ‘Emet Lecture at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, Toronto this past March–on the subject: "Why Tolerate Religion?" You may download the working draft here. Comments are welcome. Here is the abstract: Religious toleration has long been the paradigm of the liberal ideal of…
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Tracking Changes to the U.S. News Ranking Criteria
Tom Bell (Chapman) is keeping track here and here. Administrators in particular may find this useful.
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“Mind Held with Magnets High” (Edmundson)
"The Rumble in the Jungle" is what the media called the Ali-Foreman World Heavyweight Champtionship Fight in Kinshasa, Zaire, in 1974. Foreman was the 7-1 or 8-1 favorite, having demolished Joe Frazier and Ken Norton, each of whom had beaten Ali after Ali’s return to the ring following his three year suspension for refusing induction…
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Swaine from Wharton School to GW
Edward Swaine (international law, antitrust, foreign relations law), an Associate Professor of Legal Studies at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, who also holds a secondary appointment in the Law School at Penn, has accepted a tenure-track offer from the law school at George Washington University, to start in the fall.
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Pildes Turns Down Harvard, To Remain at NYU
Richard Pildes (constitutional law, voting rights) at New York University School of Law has declined the senior offer from Harvard Law School.
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Short Blogging Hiatus (Leiter)
More deadlines looming, I hope to be back on-line by Sunday or Monday. Please be patient if you have posted comments to any of the open comment threads.
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Useful New On-Line Resource for Political Philosophers (Leiter)
This new site, mentioned in the comments on another thread, reprints the best recent articles related to questions of international political theory that have appeared in a variety of leading and lesser-known journals. The articles are chosen by a large editorial board of junior and senior scholars in political theory and political philosophy.
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A Not-So-Pleasing Commencement Address: Senator McCain at the New School (Leiter)
As many readers will know, right-wing Republican Senator John McCain was heckled during his commencement speech (shilling for the criminal and immoral invasion of Iraq) at the New School in New York. This produced, from the Senator and various right-wing commentators, the predictable nonsense scolding college students for being "unwilling to listen to different opinions"…
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New Guest-Blogger Coming in June: Thomas Nadelhoffer (Leiter)
Thomas Nadelhoffer, already a leading figure in the experimental philosophy movement, has kindly agreed to visit as a guest-blogger starting June 1, to write about matters philosophical and political. Professor Nadelhoffer is concluding a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University, where he earned his PhD, and will be an…
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Historian Juan Cole on the Right-Wing Slime-and-Smear Machine
Apt comments here: I don’t want to give the impression that I am unduly interested in the cottage industry that has grown up on the US Right of, let us say, severely critiquing my work. It comes with the territory that if you become a public figure, you get attacked. In fact, even very, very…
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Labor Law Expert Fischl from Miami to Connecticut
Richard Michael Fischl (labor law, Critical Legal Studies), a longtime member of the law faculty at the University of Miami, has accepted a senior offer from the University of Connecticut School of Law in Hartford.
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Why is there a U.S. health care crisis? (Wilson)
Contrasting our positive experiences with the Canadian health care system with what she is experiencing in the U.S., my mother writes: This is such a basic, serious issue that each and every American should be agreeing on. Who and what is it that stands in the way of universal, caring health care for all Americans? …
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New Philosophers’ Carnival is…
…here. UPDATE: A reader writes with a timely reminder: "Beware pathetic spammers!" Indeed.
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