Oral Argument

Episode 158: Ethical Form of Life

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We find ourselves in a moment of untruth. Our guest, Brad Wendel, talks with us about political and legal truth and their relation to morality and social roles.

This show’s links:

  • Brad Wendel's faculty profile and writing
  • W. Bradley Wendel, Truthfulness as an Ethical Form of Life
  • Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit
  • Bernard Williams, Saint-Just's Illusion (also here)
  • Kleindienst v. Mandel
  • Stephen Colbert, The Word: Truthiness (video from the first episode of the Colbert Report, and it's still unbelievably great)
  • International Refugee Assistance Project v. Trump (4th Circuit en banc)
  • Ninth Circuit's denial of en banc consideration in Washington v. Trump (containing Judge Bybee's dissent)
  • State Bar of Michigan, Informal Ethics Opinion CI-1164
  • Bernard Williams, Truth and Truthfulness
  • Cynthia Farina, et al., Rulemaking in 140 Characters or Less:
    • Social Networking and Public Participation in Rulemaking
  • Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt
  • W. Bradley Wendel, Sally Yates, Ronald Dworkin, and the Best View of the Law
  • Fireside
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