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Touché. And given the present thread, Rimbaud may have arrived rather more punctually than either of us had any right…
Correction to my post: it should have read “when I went to her home last summer”.
I first met Gabriele Taylor when I was a graduate student in philosophy at St. Anne’s, studying for the B.Phil.…
Dear Roger of Invisible America, Your remarks towards the end of this comment about Nat Goldhaber (I’ve got a friend…
A remembered Dreyfus remark on the Maharishi: I recall hearing Dreyfus say in a recorded lecture, perhaps twenty-five years ago,…
I just published in the new PPA and can say it was one of the most difficult, rigorous R&R’s of…
Professor Skolnick taught for many years at Berkeley (1970-1994), and then for the remainder of his career at NYU, where he was also emeritus. A leading law & society scholar, he wrote influential work on different aspects of the criminal justice system, especially the police. The Berkeley JSP memorial notice is here.
(Thanks to Richard Leo for the pointer.)
“Freedom’s just another word for Je est un autre.”