Ethical Form of Life

About this Episode

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