Carl Scott

The sociologists next door to my office were talking kinda loudly about race/class/gender, race/class/gender, etc., and I just had to get some other sounds goin’ in my head.  Via you-tube surfin’ I learned, lo and behold, that on October 10, last year, THE MOST ROMANTIC RECORD EVER, . . . . Continue Reading »

This week I am appropriately traveling to Hollywood, a town that owes its fortune to the Western more than to any other genre, for the Western Political Science Association meeting, where I will be presenting a paper titled “Cowboys and Corpses: The Moral Perils of the State of Nature in the . . . . Continue Reading »

Again, apologies for this getting put on hold a while . . . Martha Bayles wrote Hole in our Soul in 1994, but most of the key elements of the rap story were in place by that point. That is, as we saw in the previous post , critics admit that rap’s “golden age” was over by then, and . . . . Continue Reading »

Over at Powerline, an interesting post and a more interesting thread on whether conservatives can close the “Pop Culture Gap.” One guy even laments that the Republicans blew by not taking the book South Park Conservatives to heart! So, apparently the day of vindication of Paul Cantor , . . . . Continue Reading »

Why might an executive officer not enforce a law? 1) They lack the resources or capabilities to do so. 2) They are exercising a type of “non-judicial constitutional interpretation,” that our system allows for. Sworn to uphold the Constitution, they do not have to wait to hear what the . . . . Continue Reading »

That’s what the Amicus Brief filed by the Claremont Institute in the case United States v. Windsor is claiming. It touches on this admittedly interesting question: Whether the President can deprive this Court of jurisdiction to consider the constitutionality of an act of Congress by refusing . . . . Continue Reading »

At the end of the day, there are three, and only three, types of Democrat Leaders when it comes to the Constitution. There are first, Open Opponents of the Constitution, second, “So-to-Speak” Supporters of the Constitution, and third, Forthright Supporters of the Constitution. By . . . . Continue Reading »

Peter’s correct that the fear that a future Supreme Court making FDR’s Second Bill of Rights a real part of our Constitution isn’t terribly relevant right now. Commenter djf is right that it’s still possible, but I think what Peter has in mind is that any future Court liberal . . . . Continue Reading »

Over at The Weekly Standard, Mark Bauerlein has written a good review, entitled, “Forbidden City,” of what looks to be good book about the liberal stranglehold over academia by one Neil Gross . Bauerlein shows us that Gross, a liberal sociologist who has written a book on Richard Rorty, . . . . Continue Reading »

My new (as of Jan.) teaching gig is with Christopher Newport University. CNU itself is an interesting institution, one that provides hope that American academia won’t eventually split apart into a Red system and a Blue one, and that college costs can be kept under control. And it hosts, with . . . . Continue Reading »