thoughts in and out of season
Long a major figure in cyber-culture, the executive editor of Wired, turns in this book to futurology. The wisdom of contemporary oracles, like that of their predecessors, emerges from dark sayings and plays on words. Although Kelly admits the future is unforeseeable, he … More ...
James Kalb
Yale Law School
Independent Study—Charles Gray, supervisor
May 1, 1978
During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and indeed until the break with Rome under Henry VIII, king and church agreed that each had a sphere of exclusive jurisdiction that the other could not infringe upon without usurpation. Naturally, problems arose in defining the … More ...
James Kalb
Yale Law School
Supervised Analytic Writing—Barbara Black, supervisor
1977
Draft
This paper deals with developments in the substantive criminal law of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York during what I shall call the “eighteenth century”: the period beginning in Pennsylvania in 1682 with the founding of the proprietary government, in Massachusetts in 1692 with … More ...
Thomas Chittum, a former rifleman in Vietnam, the Rhodesian Territorials, and the Croatian Army, has written something of an underground classic that predicts the devolution of an increasingly multicultural America into racial partition and bloody civil war.
The analysis is … More ...
My Liberal Lawyer correspondent has provoked me to the following reflections on the relationship between liberalism and totalitarianism:
… More ...How you use political words depends on the features of political life you think deserve to be played up. People view these things differently so maybe the best I can do is explain what I have in
We’ve talked a bit recently about implications of the New Urbanism, and a few years ago I wrote a book review touching on connections between tradition and fashionable scientific theories having to do with “complexity” and “emergence.” Now there’s a book that works organizational science and complex systems theory into the pattern: Confederates in … More ...
John Dewey (1859-1952) remains an extremely influential thinker whose thought sums up important trends in American life. Many oppose his thought and the trends it favors. He wrote a huge amount (his collected works run to 37 volumes) and frequently expressed himself unclearly or outright contradicted himself. Perhaps as a consequence, too many … More ...
A lawyer with mainstream liberal views on the Establishment Clause sent me a note taking issue with some of my comments on my page on the Establishment of Religion and I responded. Here’s an edited version of the exchange:
… More ...Liberal Lawyer: How can you justify the assertion that liberalism is implicitly totalitarian? A society
A couple of items among many to show how things stand in law, learning and the church:
There was shock, horror and head-shaking in my late ’70s law school procedure class when we read a Supreme Court opinion to the effect that education wasn’t a fundamentally adversarial relationship and it didn’t make sense to insist on full adversarial procedure (notice, a hearing, right to counsel, right to confront witnessess etc.) before students … More ...