Chris Grieb

Chris,

Taylor and Johnson's book is the subject of the entire "Lexington" column in this week's Economist. The column gives the book an enthusiastic review, emphasizing the roles of the media and of the Group of 88 in aiding and abetting Mike Nifong's malicious prosecution.

The author ("Lexington" is a regular column on American affairs; the author's identity is kept secret) even apologizes because an April 2006 "Lexington" column lent credence to the false charges against the three lacrosse players.

Robert Campbell

Robert; The reviews have all been great. Not being able to find a copy in the nation's capital is frustrating to say the least. Chris Grieb

Chris,

The publisher doesn't think the book will sell? Why?

I ordered mine from Amazon--it's supposed to arrive in about a week.

Robert Campbell

Robert; I think the publishers doesn't want the book to sell. C B Johnson has said Amazon has been very good. Chris

Chris,

The book deserves to be a best seller, judging from the portions of KC Johnson's blog that I've read.

I'm still curious how some members of the "Group of 88" could get away with falsely claiming that entire academic departments supported their horrible advertisement. A professor doesn't have the authority to speak for his or her entire department on some controversial political issue. And according to Johnson, none of the departments had discussed the ad, let alone taken a vote on the matter. By not acting against those who made these false claims, the upper administration at Duke has given the ad its tacit approval.

I'm looking forward to reading the book.

Robert Campbell

Robert; I think you can start in the president's office and go down. I think it is all academic guilt.

Barbara;

Chris,

I don't think this affects the point of your post in any way, but Glass Menagerie was written by Tennessee Williams, a contemporary of Miller's.

This story does make you wonder about Miller.

John

John; Duh. You are right. Let me go and wash the egg off my face.

He was in happy attendance at the press conference with his lawyers. The Washington Post had a picture of him and his family. That is one of the reasons is so great.

Chris, what was the verdict -- and why?

Barbara

It comes out today August 28th. Watch this blog.

It is rare Chris, but I disagree with you on this one! In addition to the points Barbara made in her comment, I'll add that Monk is not a police officer -- his character is that of a detective. He is not just generically neurotic, he specifically has OCD. And while this hinders him in many ways, they present it as something that makes him a better detective -- in fact, he is presented as being the best detective in the entire state of California. He is famous, and always solves his cases, because he pays great attention to detail, in part because of his OCD condition. I find the mystery stories in Monk to be generally pretty good (only a few weak episodes), and I also find the show downright funny. I still laugh when I think of the episode where he listed out all of his fears, and milk was third -- ahead of snakes! Ha ha...

Monk is in fact one of my all-time favorite shows... Susan and I look forward to it every Friday night, and lament the fact that it only comes out in six-episode "seasons". My parents also watch it every week, and it is one of their favorites too.

If you have only watched a few episodes, try it a few more times and see if you change your mind. Even better, watch some from the first two seasons, as I think in general they have gotten a little weaker as stories/mysteries, because I think the writers are running out of ideas.

Tom & Barbara; I find the character so distracting but I will try and watch him again.

Chris G,

Thanks for the recommendation of Durham in Wonderland. I knew K C Johnson's work from his participation on Cliopatria (one of the History News Network group blogs, alongside Liberty and Power) but not his meticulous documentation of all the dirty politics and general craziness at Duke.

Robert C

Robert;

Thanks Chris! For anyone interested, my blog Philosopher Stone is located at www.tomsusan.com/tom/blog/

I haven't actually posted much on philosophy thus far. A lot on baseball and humor, as Chris noted. But most of the rest of the posts have been on current events, economics, and so on -- and not philosophy per se.

You are right.

Stakeholder theory sounds like a bad idea. What was the argument for it?