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Henry Luce Prof. of Jurisprudence and Prof. of History, Yale. “Not Enough” (). Forerunner. Love only when there is something lovable.

New Haven, CT
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Joined January 2009
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    2 Sep 2018

    The limits of my Bitmojis are the limits of my world.

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  2. 1 hour ago

    To Louis Gottschalk (adviser of Gertrude Himmelfarb’s dissertation on Lord Acton), November 7, 1947

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    2 hours ago

    The constitution has been a ghost for decades. We are now having our eyes opened to what that means.

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    2 hours ago

    Happy pub day to 's In the Shadow of Justice! Read the book that calls "one of the most effective and unsettling works of genealogical intellectual history."

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    3 hours ago

    Hurst Hannum of on his new book, "Rescuing Human Rights": saving human rights requires limiting their ambition.

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    4 hours ago

    Corey Robin’s The Enigma of Clarence Thomas appears to be that rare thing: a provocative, rigorously argued book that takes seriously views with which its author disagrees, in the process casting Thomas in new, unfamiliar light.

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  7. 3 hours ago

    What if philosophy internalized the fact that it is always (perhaps among other things) a product of its time or “its age captured in thought”?

    Rawls’s theory was a product of its time. It certainly wasn’t taught like that. Can’t wait to delve into In the Shadow of Justice, . Judging by the BR excerpt and all my friends raves about it, it’s spectacular
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  8. 3 hours ago

    Doing archival work today (!) while the world burns

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    6 hours ago

    “The book’s pacing is steady and unrelenting, as Goldsmith toggles between his own careful narrative voice and Chuckie’s off-the-cuff wiseguy vernacular."

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    5 hours ago

    🚨Just in: 's wealth tax! It has rates ranging from 2% above $32 million all the way up to 8% above $10 billion With Emmanuel Saez we scored this proposal and found it would raise $4.35 trillion over the next decade A few thoughts... 1/6

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    5 hours ago

    I see much of the UK commentariat think apex courts can either resemble the modest, retiring old Law Lords or the hyper-politicised US Supreme Court, with nothing in between: Anglo-American parochialism at its finest. (Never mind European varieties: Canada, NZ etc also ignored.)

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  12. 5 hours ago

    Welcome to the juristocracy.

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    12 hours ago

    In Hoffa's Shadow, a remarkable book from , that is a deeply personal story, a gripping tale of one of the FBI's most famous (& frustrating) investigations, and a cautionary tale about government power (and abuse). I highly highly recommend.

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    10 hours ago
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    Now run the next poll, Sam: “if 😡 is NOT impeached and then wins, our response will be:”

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    14 hours ago

    If Trump is impeached and wins anyway, our response will be:

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    17 hours ago

    What is even happening....

    Replying to @LeniDiamond
    I’d say neoliberalism is the political-economic consensus that has governed the last forty years of policy in the US and UK. Its failure helped to produce the Trump moment. Now we have to replace it with something better.
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  17. 15 hours ago

    ” I know some current students and recent graduates of Yale Law School, and they don’t seem diffident or despairing to me at all. In fact, they seem, understandably, rather pleased with themselves. The Marxist part of the book is the interesting part.”

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    17 hours ago

    Mark von Hagen, Critic of Times’s Stalin Coverage, Dies at 65

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  19. 16 hours ago

    Malcolm on Sontag

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  20. Sep 23

    Wow, what an honor

    Our review of Bari Weiss's book, by Judith Butler
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