Law & Society Blog

So recently my alma mater’s student paper, The Gazette, published their annual spoof issue. One satirical article, titled “Labia Majora Carnage”, included a mock-scene which involved the rape of a local feminist-activist by the chief of police. Many readers interpreted the passage to be trivializing rape, if not promoting it. It caught a lot of […]

Among the many gems on YouTube are rare videos of philosophers. This is the first time that I have seen Adorno, Horkheimer, Heidegger and Husserl!
Vilem Flusser
On communication, part 1, part 2
Juergen Habermas
Interview
Jean Baudrillard
2004 Lecture
Theodor Adorno
Blasting Joan Baez
On humanity
Max Horkeimer
On critical theory
Jean Paul Sartre
About himself, parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Michel Foucault
Discussion with Noam Chomsky, […]

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I never quite bought into the penguin craze, but I am a complete sucker for pictures, videos, and articles about polar bear cub Knut. Der Spiegel, a reliable source for all things Knut (if not much else), now has a photo gallery of other animal babies. I know, we usually ponder heavy stuff on this […]

Here’s the latest Newsweek poll. Interestingly, 68% think that one can be a moral person and be an atheist. That’s encouraging.
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My apologies for the recent dearth of postings, which (fortunately) is the result of a number of good things having taken over my life more or less completely. Among them, one great case after another (including on the pro bono side ACLU v. Gonzales, even though I hasten to add that I only played a […]