Monthly Archives: July 2013

George Anastaplo I.              The early history of the United States had been such that Abraham Lincoln could insist, in the 1850s, that the Founders of the Country had believed that matters had been so … Continue reading →

IN RE  GEORGE ANASTAPLO: MISCELLANEOUS COMMENTS ABOUT THE CAREER OF GEORGE ANASTAPLO, THREE DECADES AFTER THE UNEXPECTED BEGINNING (IN NOVEMBER 1950) OF HIS ILLINOIS BAR ADMISSION CHALLENGE I. A letter of December 22, 1978, from George Anastaplo to the Chief … Continue reading →

George Anastaplo   I. I have recently had occasion to review, several decades afterwards, materials of mine discussing the rule in Greece by a cabal of Colonels between 1967 and 1974. Those officers made their ill-fated move to seize power … Continue reading →

George Anastaplo   A letter to editors, February 16, 2010 The recent United States Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case seems to permit business corporations and labor unions to spend as lavishly as they wish in our political campaigns. Critics … Continue reading →

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George Anastaplo . . . George Anastaplo, whom I have known for almost forty years, would be the classic American individualist–except he deeply respects manners, locality, and community. His extremism may lie in his devotion to the virtue of moderation. … Continue reading →

George Anastaplo I. I had occasion, in February 2013, to offer this letter to the Times Literary Supplement (not published there but posted on here): George Steiner’s instructive review of Yvonne Sherratt’s Hitler’s Philosophers (“How private a Nazi?,” TLS, February … Continue reading →