July 2022
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More on the Katz case at Princeton
Classicist Clifford Ando (Chicago) excorciates Princeton and its President, Christopher Eisgruber, in many respects quite rightly; an excerpt: Princeton is not particularly interested in violations of policy in respect to sex between professors and undergraduates. For example, so far as I can tell, no effort has been made to survey students (or professors) as to…
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The judge who presided over a successful Establishment Clause challenge to an attempt to insert “intelligent design” creationism into a public school curriculum…
…comments on the super-legislatures latest evisceration of the increasingly attenuated "separation" between church and state. (Thanks to Glenn Branch for the pointer.)
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The super-legislature’s power grab in the case of environmental law
An informative analysis by a longtime Washington, D.C. lawyer.
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The latest reminder that the U.S. is a barbaric nation
The massacre of innocents near Chicago.
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In Memoriam: Richard J. Bernstein (1932-2022)
A longtime member of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in New York City, Professor Bernstein taught for more than two decades before that at Haverford College, and before that at Yale University, where his denial of tenure in the 1960s was controversial. Bernstein was best-known for synoptic works exploring connections between…
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“We learn about a face by drawing it. What can that tell us about how we learn the truth by thinking?”
Philosophy graduate student Michael Thorne (UCL) discusses at The Raven.
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Zaibert from Union College to Cambridge
Leo Zaibert (philosophy of law, political philosophy), Professor of Philosophy at Union College, has accepted a Chair in "Penal Theory and Ethics" on the law faculty at Cambridge University. (Thanks to Markus Dubber for the pointer.)
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Great moments in obscure rock ‘n’ roll: Rumplestiltskin, “Squandron Leader Johnson,” 1970
A group of British studio musicians teamed up to record two rock blues albums (in 1970 and 1972); we last featured them (with their best song) in 2016. This is the concluding number of the first album:
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The super-legislature’s mischief this year went beyond abortion, gun control, and religion and the public sphere
Jason Steed, an appellate lawyer in Texas (and former student of mine from my time at the University of Texas at Austin), has a striking thread on Twitter compiling all the bad things the court did.
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“Constitutional Law, Moral Judgment, and the Supreme Court as Super-Legislature” (2015)
Recent events are making this assessment ever more relevant, sad to say.
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“Constitutional Law, Moral Judgment, and the Supreme Court as Super-Legislature” (2015)
Recent events are making this assessment ever more relevant, sad to say.
The phrase ‘Does the fact’ naturally invites howls of derision: it’s a fact that every child knows that the Japanese…