Episode 117: Coarsening

The election. And then viewer mail on media for scholarship and ideas, suspense and emotional salience in judicial opinions, and a little more.

This show’s links:

Oral Argument 106: Legal Asteroid

Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons

David Souter on the Danger of America’s “pervasive civic ignorance” (video)

Oral Argument 105: Bismarck’s Raw Material (guest Tim Meyer)

Oral Argument 112: Quasi-Narrative (guest Simon Stern)

Popov v. Hayashi

Oyez page for NFIB v. Sebelius (select Opinion Announcement, part 1, for the relevant portion of the hand-down)

Oral Argument 113: The Entrails of Fowl (guest Charles Barzun)

Paul Horwitz, On “The Troublesome Use of Photographs . . . and Other Images” in Federal Court Opinions

Blackmun’s dissent in DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services

Jamal Greene, Pathetic Arguments in Constitutional Law

The Oral Argument Index

David Ziff, The Worst System of Citation Except for All the Others