Fish’s Formulation Foot-Faults

The New York Times’ Stanley Fish also takes up the Hosanna-Tabor case, argued last week in the Supreme Court, and disappoints in doing so.

It’s not so much that he gets the answer wrong – I’m not sure he does, because I’m not sure what his answer is – as that he falls for sloppy formulation of the question and in so doing misinforms and muddies the water. Continue reading “Fish’s Formulation Foot-Faults”

Tasty Tidbits 10/15/11

  1. Occupying Lafayette.
  2. A Secular Case for Distributism.
  3. “Screw each other and everybody gets rich.”
  4. Bishop and Diocese Indicted for not reporting child abuse suspicions.
  5. T   o   w   e   r      o   f      B   a   b   e   l.
  6. More Anti-Mormon Extralegal Religious Tests.
  7. Ron Paul’s pro-life ad (and cagey substance).
  8. St. Basil on Theft.

Continue reading “Tasty Tidbits 10/15/11”