http://www.stevendouglasmaloney.com Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:35:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Make sure you tune in to Robert Talisse's guest appearance on "Philosophy Bites." http://www.stevendouglasmaloney.com/2010/02/shameless-other-promotion/ Sybil and I are in the current issue of the Saint John's University Law Review.  "Justice is Hard, Let's Go Shopping!: Trading Justice for Efficiency Under the New Aggregate Settlement Regime." PDF. http://www.stevendouglasmaloney.com/2010/02/shameless-self-promotion-2/ I haven't really read any of his stuff since Underworld, but there's a nice piece on Don Dellilo in today's New York Times. http://www.stevendouglasmaloney.com/2010/02/ny-times-with-don-dellilo/ A PUBLICLY FUNDED FOOTBALL STADIUM????  This from a Governor who is apparently so principled on the budget that it is worth violating his Constitutional prerogative to cut funding for things. Don't worry though, they have a perfectly responsible means to pay for this new stadium: they are going to encourage more people to ... http://www.stevendouglasmaloney.com/2010/02/warning-angry-rant-follows/ As the Indianapolis Colts and New Orleans Saint prepare to play a near-incomprehensible sporting match against one another, the rest of us prepare for a descent into hell.  As if sitting through the sport with so many rules, replay challenges, and mind-numbing length that only the world's most litigious civilization ... http://www.stevendouglasmaloney.com/2010/01/our-super-bowl-inferno/ If Theodore Lowi is correct that the Republican Era died in the 1990's, last week's Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Committee was the equivalent of digging up the corpse and adding further humiliation to a long dead body. A quick survey of James Madison's Federalist #10, which ... http://www.stevendouglasmaloney.com/2010/01/violating-the-grave-site-of-the-republican-era/ A couple of interesting posts up today, one is a paper by Professor Brian Croxall entitled "The Absent Presence: Today's Faculty." (The link comes via Brian Leiter, via a tip off from an old friend, or at least someone with the same name) Professor Croxall cites the ratio of students ... http://www.stevendouglasmaloney.com/2010/01/the-adjunct-underclass-and-the-american-university/ The New York Times has a piece on how a liberal arts education that forces you to engage reading and analysis critically (surprise!) is good for the cognitive abilities of individuals regardless of profession.  And I thought I was wasting my time all this time... http://www.stevendouglasmaloney.com/2010/01/look-whos-come-crawling-back/ The week of self-promotion continues.  I am writing a weekly column on Glorious Football.  My first post is on how the "Big Four" era in England faces a new environment, but that doesn't guarantee that the Big Four won't continue to dominate.  Please read and leave positive feedback on the ... http://www.stevendouglasmaloney.com/2010/01/im-a-paid-sports-writer/ The thoughts and prayers of all the football community are in Angola today, where the Togolese national Football team was ambushed while in the country for the Africa Cup of Nations.  Africa has had a recent run of terrible footballing tragedies, and as it moves ever-closer to its first ever ... http://www.stevendouglasmaloney.com/2010/01/more-than-a-game/