I had no personal connection to Lear, but count myself lucky to have come across Love and Its Place in Nature in a used bookstore one dayβa book that still seems to me emblematic of the very best the humanities have to offer.
Jonathan Lear was one of my advisors during my time at the University of Chicago. I am shocked to hear of his loss. May his memory be a blessing, and may he rest in peace. I am praying for the consolation of his family.
@beau_baumann Coverβs great essays (Nomos, Violence and the Word) grab me every time. Some great scholarship seems like it eventually would have been written by someone else if the author hadnβtβbut Coverβs work feels the opposite of inevitable.
@HappinessHitHim No better way to liven up small talk than casually dropping a little βlegal interpretation takes place on a field of pain and deathβ
Proud to see some of my Senate work come to fruition with todayβs ABA resolution against required disclosures when domestic violence and sexual assault survivors apply for bar membership.
Devastated to learn that the political scientist James C. Scott recently passed away. Such a generous, brilliant, and original thinker, from "Weapons of the Weak" to "Moral Economy of the Peasant" to "Seeing Like a State" to "Against the Grain."