September 2006
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Oo, this is fun (Hellie)
Watch Clinton pulverize Fox News scum here.
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Which War Are We Winning? (Edmundson)
The newest National Intelligence Estimate is leaking out, and the Attorney General had better get on the case unless he wants the other party to get control of Congress. According to the New York Times (Sept. 23): A stark assessment of terrorism trends by American intelligence agencies has found that the American invasion and occupation…
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“Why run the risk of unleashing a fury that even Stalin had problems controlling?” (Hellie)
Josh Marshall digs this out of the archives: One nasty morning Comrade Stalin discovered that his favorite pipe was missing. Naturally, he called in his henchman, Lavrenti Beria, and instructed him to find the pipe. A few hours later, Stalin found it in his desk and called off the search. "But, Comrade Stalin," stammered Beria,…
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October surprise (Hellie)
Some data: The 13 Sep Weekly Standard reported Bush’s "heads up" that two "interesting indicators" undermine predictions that the Dems take congress: in Bush’s view, "these elections will come down to two things: one, firm belief that in order to win the war on terror there must be a comprehensive strategy that recognizes this war…
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“Wave of departures” from Yale Law School Imminent?
A professor at Yale Law School writes: Yale Law School may experience a wave of departures. [James] Whitman’s going to New York (NYU or Columbia), [Alec] Stone Sweet is flirting with Columbia and Stanford, Kenji Yoshino will follow Whitman to one or the other, [Reva] Siegel and [Robert] Post are visitng at Harvard and one…
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“The Future of Legal Scholarship” in the Era of Blogs and the Internet
Two more essays from the Yale Law Journal Pocket Part symposium are now on-line: Rosa Brooks writes about "What the Internet Age Means for Female Scholars" and I write about "Why Blogs Are Bad for Legal Scholarship." (Rosa and I are so predictable!) I don’t know if either of us are right, but I suspect…
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MIT Press Blog (Leiter)
MIT Press has a blog! Who knew? Is this a first for a university press? I believe it is. UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who wrote to inform me that there are many university press blogs, including some linked from the MIT blog itself!
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Chomsky Book Sales Are About to Spike (Leiter)
Check out this photo from CNN. If only Hugo Chavez had been holding a copy of Nietzsche on Morality or The Future for Philosophy! But I guess those books wouldn’t have been as relevant to his topic (though Chapter 9 in the former, and Chapter 3 in the latter are actually not totally unrelated…). (But…
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Jules Coleman, International Man of Mystery! (Leiter)
Who knew that the well-known legal philosopher and famed audiophile was a figure of such intrigue? Faculty web pages would be a lot more interesting to read if most were written like this! UPDATE: Jules writes: "Now outed, I want to add two small points. The first is that his daughter has now joined his…
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SSRN Downloads, Once Again…and Some More Skeptical Thoughts
So the new updated SSRN download data is on-line. There is so much wrong with the aggregate download data, it’s hard to know where to begin, but let’s start with something that obviously catches my eye. Texas now ranks 2nd (behind Harvard) for the most downloads in the last 12 months. Of the 28,000 downloads,…
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UC Irvine Still in the Running for a 5th UC Law School
From the Chancellor of UC Irvine: Contrary to recent reports in the media, the University of California, Irvine’s proposal to establish a School of Law is actively under consideration by the University of California. On Wednesday, Sept. 20, I will give an informational presentation and answer questions on the law school at the UC Board…
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One More PGR Update
Tomorrow, new invitations will go out to the folks for whom we had dated or incorrect e-mail addresses. Since I’ve heard directly or indirectly from one or two who thought they hadn’t been invited as evaluators this year, let me just note here the philosophers who should receive their original invitations (if all goes well)…
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“U.S. News Law School Rankings Are Bogus”
Yes, they are. (Though, I must note, the "2007 Educational Quality Rankings" this fellow cites don’t exist. But that’s minor.) UPDATE: In response to a reader query: citing the absurd Cooley/Brennan rankings doesn’t help the cause either, but it also doesn’t change the fact that Hastings is badly screwed by U.S. News.
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“Scary Bible Quotes” (Leiter)
Here, courtesy of philosopher Michael Huemer (Colorado), who usefully explains the purpose of this list here.
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Is David Luban Being Serious?
I almost fell out of my chair when I read this: Comparing the quality of articles in the top student-edited law reviews with the quality of articles in the top peer-reviewed philosophy journals (my own scholarly point of reference), I have never been able to detect superiority in the peer-reviewed philosophy journals. By and large,…
I respond to this report here https://jasonstanleyantifascist.substack.com/p/on-the-philosophical-muddle-that