online archive
12:00PM
JUL 20 2007
Legal theory, book reviews and education
Joseph Raz (Oxford): Numbers, With and Without Contractualism. Leslie C. Griffin (Houston): Political Reason. Louis Michael Seidman (Georgetown): Can Constitutionalism Be Leftist? Paul Edelman and Tracey George (Vanderbilt): Six Degrees of Cass Sunstein: Collaboration Networks in Legal Scholarship. Jeffrey Lipshaw (Suffolk): Memo to Lawyers: How Not to "Retire and Teach".
Gertrude Himmelfarb reviews Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Upheaval That Inspired America's Founding Fathers by Michael Barone. A review of The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy. An interview with Roger Crisp on John Stuart Mill's utilitarian ethical theory. A review of Motherland: A Philosophical History of Russia by Lesley Chamberlain. A review of Whitehead's Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy: An Argument for Its Contemporary Relevance by David Ray Griffin. Philosopher in Thought Only: Hannah Arendt fucked a philosopher, but she didn't want to be one. An interview with Gerald J. Russello, author of The Postmodern Imagination of Russell Kirk. A review of John Lott’s Freedomnomics.
From National Review, an article on sex & the single college student: Conservatives engage the culture. From Nerve's "History of Single Life", an article on Abelard and Heloise: teacher-student sex in the Middle Ages. Why and when Ph.D. students finish: New data point to importance of money and mentors — and to significant differences by discipline. A review of The Sandbox Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics by David Kirp.
