Missouri Duel: Our Second Annual Call-Out Show

About this Episode

It’s our second annual call-out show, and it’s a double-sized episode meant to last two weeks. We’re joined by listeners and previous guests who share with us the bits of culture — books, movies, and television — that have affected them and their experience of law and policy. Many things come up, but here’s the rundown:

• Listener Cameron, 0:00, Les Misérables
• Listener Michael, 26:11, JFK, the film
• Listener Bunny, 44:28, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Measure of a Man
• Listener and co-host Sonja West, 1:11:26, The Feminine Mystique
• Listener and co-host Dave Fagundes, 1:41:25, A Wilderness of Error
• Mom, 2:10:14, Honor Council, The Insider, Serial

This show’s links:

• Oral Argument 44: Serial (A Double-Sized Episode with Many Special Guests)
• About Les Misérables (and a list of its various incarnations on film and stage)
• About the “Ban the Box” movement
• Hicks v. District of Columbia (in which Justice Douglas cites Les Mis in dissent); Harmelin v. Michigan (approving Michigan’s “three strikes” law); and the dissent from the denial of cert in Riggs v. California (in which the defendant’s third strike under California’s law was for stealing a bottle of vitamins); People v. Taylor (a state court appellate case in which the dissent begins: “In a scenario somewhat reminiscent of a late 20th Century, real life Les Miserables, a hungry, homeless man is sent away for 25 years to life for trying to break into a church so he could eat some food he thought the church would be glad for him to have.”)
• JFK, the 1991 film
• About the assassination of JFK
• Philosophy Bites: Quasi Cassam on Conspiracy Theories
• Hold Up!
• About the legislative impact of JFK
• About Making a Murderer
• Oral Argument 37: Hammer Blow (guest Michael Dorf)
• The Measure of a Man, an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation; Picard’s argument for Data’s sentience (youtube)
• About positronic brains
• Richard Fisher, Is It OK to Torture or Murder a Robot
• Oral Argument 41: Sense-Think-Act (guest Ryan Calo)
• About the technological singularity
• Her
• Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines
• Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
• Rostker v. Goldberg (upholding the male-only military draft)
• Jerome Wakefield, The Concept of Mental Disorder
• The oral argument in Lawrence v. Texas
• Amy Argetsinger, Robert Spitzer, Psychiatrist of Transformative Influence, Dies at 83
• Oral Argument 55: Cronut Lines (guest Dave Fagundes), discussing Waiting in Line: Norms, Markets, and the Law
• Lauren Davidson, Google’s New “Popular Times” Feature Could Kill the Queue
• Errol Morris, A Wilderness of Error (and more about Errol Morris)
• About Jeffrey MacDonald
• About the controversies over Fatal Vision
• The Thin Blue Line
• Serial, season one
• Janet Malcolm, The Journalist and the Murderer
• Daniel Medwed, The Innocent Prisoner’s Dilemma: Consequences of Failing to Admit Guilt at Parole Hearings (see also Rob Harris, The “Innocent Prisoner’s Dilemma”, an excellent NY Times video)
• Oral Argument 48: Legal Truth (guest Lisa Kern Griffin)
• The Insider