Coarsening

About this Episode

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