Monthly Archives: July 2010

Some thoughts upon listening for two days to the Closing Arguments in the Blagojevich corruption trial in Chicago:  The Governor should have been able, from the outset of this prosecution, to invoke an insanity defense.  In any event, his political … Continue reading →

George Anastaplo, Editor (published excerpts as of Summer, 2010) Table of Contents Introduction (2010)…………………………………………………………………………………………………………..2 The Holocaust and the Divine Ordering of Human Things (2007)………………………………………….3 I.          Life, Death, and the Systematic Perversions of Law (2000, 2009)………………………………7 II.         European Jews, Their … Continue reading →

by George Anastaplo I. Our yearlong survey of all the dialogues and letters attributed to Plato ends with our Alumni seminar this morning during which we return to the Apology and the Phaedo.  This, at the end of still another … Continue reading →

by George Anastaplo I. The Christian heritage, with a significant but not exclusively Protestant orientation, has long been very much taken for granted in the United States.  That heritage may be detected, for example, among the references to the Divine … Continue reading →

by  George Anastaplo (Remarks made at a Conference on Niccolo Machiaveli, Basic Program Weekend, The University of Chicago, May 1, 2010) A concern for republican principles, I presume to suggest, can be associated with Niccolo Machiavelli.  What, we can usefully … Continue reading →

Yesterday’s United States Court of Appeals “First Amendment” ruling seems to make it more difficult for the Federal Communications Commission to discourage indecent speech on the air in this country. Our traditional freedom of speech guarantee was never intended to … Continue reading →

[This Epilogue (“The Thinker as Artist”) was provided for George Anastaplo, The Artist as Thinker: From Shakespeare to Joyce (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1983), pp. 249-72, 473-85.] Once there was in the city a beautiful woman named Theodote, who … Continue reading →

by George Anastaplo (a talk given at the Hyde Park Historical Society, Chicago, Illinois, November 16, 2003.) Well I know when you leave this lodging of the dead that you and your ship will put ashore again at the island … Continue reading →

by George Anastaplo (July 4, 2010) Suggestions about the questions and problems we have considered in Loyola University law school seminars and in University of Chicago adult education seminars during the 2009-2010 Academic Year (which is my own 85th year) … Continue reading →

by George Anastaplo (This article was published in The Greek Star, Chicago Illinois, December 24, 2009, p. 8.) I. I have been asked, once again, to supply a Christmas piece for The Greek Star.  One such contribution provided, in the … Continue reading →