August 2006
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The Fake War on Terror, Part 411 (Leiter)
Crack security teams are protecting us from the threat of scary anti-fascist T-shirts in Arabic: An architect of Iraqi descent has said he was forced to remove a T-shirt that bore the words "We will not be silent" before boarding a flight at New York. Raed Jarrar said security officials warned him his clothing was…
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Howard Bashman, Nonpartisan?
I really don’t follow Mr. Bashman’s blog that closely, but I was surprised to read this article in the New York Times which described his blog as "non-partisan." While it is true that he largely links to news and related items about appellate litigations, I would have thought it obvious (from my occasional visits to…
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What’s Next on the Freedom Agenda? (Edmundson)
The deadline set by the UN Security Council for Iran to cease uranium enrichment expires tonight. Iran will not comply, that much is clear. The rest is, well, foggy. Is it the fog of impending war, or fog of some other kind? Two illuminating interviews ran this afternoon on NPR’s "Fresh Air." One, with Joseph…
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Bush War Timeline: Lie by Lie (Leiter)
Informative resource here. (Thanks to Alva Noe for the pointer.) Presumably someone is working on the timeline of lies for the coming war of aggression against Iran. I’ll have more to say about that in the coming days. UPDATE: This kind of propaganda is particularly ominous.
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This Should Help Michigan in the US News Rankings
Based on expenditures alone…
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“Appeasement”: The New Rhetorical Tack of the War-Mongers (Leiter)
Juan Cole (History, Michigan) has the right response. UPDATE: John Oberdiek (Law, Rutgers) points out this "unintentionally hilarious" headline at CNN.
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Not Enough to Worry About? (Leiter)
"Imagine a black hole swallowing Earth, ending life in an instant. It’s not only the stuff of pulp sci-fi novels but, scientists say, a looming possibility." Details here.
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Code from Berkeley to Rutgers
Alan Code, one of the leading scholars of ancient philosophy in the English-speaking world, who is currently at the University of California at Berkeley, has accepted appointment as Board of Governors Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University at New Brunswick, effective the fall of 2007. That’s both a significant loss for Berkeley and a major…
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Who is Alexandra Heifetz and Why Does She Want to Smear a Nice Guy Like Me (and a Nice Field Like Philosophy)? (Leiter)
MOVING TO THE FRONT from July 11 for the benefit of those who missed it during the summer N+1 is a new NYC-based publication that styles itself high-brow and left; I am told that kids just out of college hanging out in NYC read it, and read its website in particular. It was one such…
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Law School Faculty Quality: Who is Up and Who is Down Since 2003
MOVING TO FRONT from July 18 for benefit of readers who missed it during the summer We ran our last reputational surveys of leading legal scholars in the Spring of 2003; I hope to run a new one in Spring 2007, since some perhaps meaningful changes have taken place in faculty rosters in the interim. …
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Bacciagaluppi from Paris to Sydney
Guido Bacciagaluppi (philosophy of physics), currently at the Institue d’historie et de philosophie des sciences at des techniques in Paris, will join the Centre for Time in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sydney as a Senior Research Fellow later this fall. Sydney, with Huw Price, Mark Colyvan, Paul Griffiths, and others, has…
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Triumphs of a Free Media, Part 18 (Leiter)
We certainly wouldn’t want a pro-war Democrat facing meaningful opposition in a democratic society, now would we? The cover story in the new issue of TIME, the flagship publication of the Time Warner media empire, informs readers that Hillary Clinton has "virtually nonexistent opposition for her senate seat…." [A]t another outpost of the Time Warner…
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Ahmadinejad *Hearts* Bush (Nadelhoffer)
A recent report by the Chatham House–aka The Royal Institute of International Affairs–suggests that the quagmire the Bushies have created in Iraq has strengthened rather than weakened the Iranian leg of the so-called ‘axis of evil’ (see here). Here are some noteworthy excerpts: "There is little doubt that Iran has been the chief beneficiary of…
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When Justice Crosses Borders (Nadelhoffer)
Yesterday there was an interesting article posted at Alternet by Jay Walljasper about the European Court of Human Rights (see here). Here is an excerpt: Even more unique is the basic premise of the court: that individuals have the right to bring human-rights cases before these judges if they believe that justice has not been…
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Law Blog Headlines…
…are available at this useful site.
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that