January 2013
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More on the controversy at Brooklyn College
Philosopher Samir Chopra (Brooklyn) comments. UPDATE: This is also amusing (albeit about an unamusing figure). (Thanks to Aaron Baker for the pointer.)
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New Books in January
Authors and/or publishers kindly sent me these new books this month: Hume's Politics: Coordination and Crisis in the History of England by Andrew Sabl (Princeton University Press, 2012). Confucius, Rawls, and the Sense of Justice by Erin M. Cline (Fordham University Press, 2013). Blame: Its Nature and Norms edited by D. Justin Coates & Neal…
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Philosophy student’s survey of moral and political attitudes in contemporary American culture
Angie Jachim, a philosophy student at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, is working on a senior thesis "research project concerning the moral and political temperature of contemporary Americanculture. In order to further my research, I have created a survey. [Professor Andrew Youpa] suggested I email you and see if you would be willing to share the link…
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The Re-Trial of Socrates
A colleague at my wife's law firm offered us tickets, so I will be taking my son to this event. I will report in due course! Meanwhile, I hope they're making sure the jurors don't read "The Problem of Socrates" chapter from Twilight of the Idols, lest they be prejudiced!
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Repugs planning to win in 2016…
…through vote suppression and dilution.
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In Memoriam: Richard Barnes
Probably no need to flag a front-page Times story on this subject, but for the sake of completeness I note it. There's not really anything new for those who are regular readers of this blog. One irony, I expect, of a high-profile story like this is that it may actually push the number of applicants…
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Diverse group of leading constitutional law scholars submits statement to Congress about the Second Amendment and regulation of guns
It's a pretty sober and straightforward analysis, and it doesn't even question the decision in Heller which itself is highly questionable. Signatories include my colleagues Albert Alschuler, Richard Epstein, Eric Posner, Geoffrey Stone, and David Strauss, as well as Laurence Tribe, Bruce Ackerman, Charles Fried, Sanford Levinson, Mitchell Berman, Michael Dorf, Walter Dellinger, Erwin Chemerinsky, and…
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Letters of reference, once again
Jo Wolff (UCL) comments, and even works in a reference to the infamous Berlin letter for Hart! Earlier coverage of the topic here, here, here, here, and here.
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Those who police discourse about Israel…
…are out in force because the Political Science Department and several other groups at Brooklyn College are sponsoring two speakers discussing the "BDS" (or boycott, divest, and sanction) movement in response to Israeli crimes against the Palestinians. John Protevi (LSU) has a good summary. And the President of Brooklyn College has made a good, public…
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Miami’s Mark Rowlands on…
…the philosophy of play.
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It would be fair to say that the Federal Law Clerk Hiring Plan is finished…
…when the D.C. Circuit officially gives up on it. Let us hope a successor emerges.
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Repug stupidity about higher education spreads from Florida…
…to North Carolina! The "PhD in philosophy" is singled out for derisive remarks by these know-nothings, appraently unaware that UNC has one of the best philosophy programs in the United States. (The irony is William Bennett has a PhD in philosophy, though it didn't do him any good!) UPDATE: IHE has coverage too.
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Niles from Seattle to American
Dean Mark Niles, of Seattle University School of Law, is stepping down as dean. He will return to the faculty of American University Law in Washington, DC, where he taught for a dozen years prior to assuming the Seattle deanship.
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Durham’s Julian Reiss on philosophy of economics
Interview here.
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Marx’s comeback continues…
…and The New York Times notices. UPDATE: And The Guardian. (Thanks to Jim Nichols for the pointer.)
If much of the interest of high-quality papers lies between the lines—in the metaphorical fire that a paper lights in…