The Law According to Harvey Mansfield
Andrew Ferguson’s current feature essay in The Weekly Standard “The ‘Science’ of Same-Sex Marriage” considers the unique brief filed by Leon Kass and Harvey Mansfield in the Proposition 8 case that is...
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Money Talks
Americans have always been strivers. Since at least the 19th century we have been eager to file into lecture halls to be talked at by experts. Those obnoxious-seeming TED talks that I’ve tried to avoid...
View ArticleUnifying the Two Cultures in Law Schools
Almost seventy years ago, C.P. Snow famously warned of a split between two cultures in our universities and society. The first was the scientific culture marked by rigorous modeling and empirical...
View ArticleIs There “Science” in “Political Science”?
The first problem with the phrase “political science” is that “science” is a god-term in the United States. Perhaps not as much as it was in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but many folks...
View ArticleReducing Our Life Together to Interests, Fears, and Hatreds
It seems every year we have more proof that American universities are failing to engage in civic education, especially if we understand the concept as requiring meaningful reflection about the nature...
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