Doing a little dance today over the decision in Boumediene and Al Odah v. US. It turns out that Congress didn’t accidentally suspend habeas corpus while authorizing the use of military force. Yay! More here, and the decision can be read here. Also, here’s a line that I really, really enjoyed:
“Abstaining from questions involving formal [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
Boumediene v. Bush
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Arendt responds to Auden: “Of course I am prejudiced, namely against charity.”
Friday, June 6, 2008
Working in the Arendt archives this week, I came across this draft of a letter of Hannah Arendt’s, responding the poet Auden’s essay on Falstaff and his criticisms of certain aspects of her account of forgiveness in The Human Condition:
Dear Wystan Auden -
I just read the Falstaff piece — had some trouble getting the [...]
Back in the Beltway
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
We’ve arrived in our new home, and things are settling down. On our first night here, our car was broken into it, and it’s taken a bit of time to get internet running smoothly, but I’m finally ready to start blogging more regularly.
DC is a wonderful, wonderful town: I love the Mall and the [...]