It’s our second annual call-out show, and it’s a double-sized episode meant to last two weeks. We’re joined by listeners and previous guests who share with us the bits of culture — books, movies, and television — that have affected them and their experience of law and policy. Many things come up, but here’s the rundown:
- Listener Cameron, 0:00, Les Misérables
- Listener Michael, 26:11, JFK, the film
- Listener Bunny, 44:28, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Measure of a Man
- Listener and co-host Sonja West, 1:11:26, The Feminine Mystique
- Listener and co-host Dave Fagundes, 1:41:25, A Wilderness of Error
- Mom, 2:10:14, Honor Council, The Insider, Serial
This show’s links:
- Oral Argument 44: Serial (A Double-Sized Episode with Many Special Guests)
- About Les Misérables (and a list of its various incarnations on film and stage)
- About the “Ban the Box” movement
- Hicks v. District of Columbia (in which Justice Douglas cites Les Mis in dissent); Harmelin v. Michigan (approving Michigan’s “three strikes” law); and the dissent from the denial of cert in Riggs v. California (in which the defendant’s third strike under California’s law was for stealing a bottle of vitamins); People v. Taylor (a state court appellate case in which the dissent begins: “In a scenario somewhat reminiscent of a late 20th Century, real life Les Miserables, a hungry, homeless man is sent away for 25 years to life for trying to break into a church so he could eat some food he thought the church would be glad for him to have.”)
- JFK, the 1991 film
- About the assassination of JFK
- Philosophy Bites: Quasi Cassam on Conspiracy Theories
- Hold Up!
- About the legislative impact of JFK
- About Making a Murderer
- Oral Argument 37: Hammer Blow (guest Michael Dorf)
- The Measure of a Man, an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation; Picard’s argument for Data’s sentience (youtube)
- About positronic brains
- Richard Fisher, Is It OK to Torture or Murder a Robot
- Oral Argument 41: Sense-Think-Act (guest Ryan Calo)
- About the technological singularity
- Her
- Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines
- Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
- Rostker v. Goldberg (upholding the male-only military draft)
- Jerome Wakefield, The Concept of Mental Disorder
- The oral argument in Lawrence v. Texas
- Amy Argetsinger, Robert Spitzer, Psychiatrist of Transformative Influence, Dies at 83
- Oral Argument 55: Cronut Lines (guest Dave Fagundes), discussing Waiting in Line: Norms, Markets, and the Law
- Lauren Davidson, Google’s New “Popular Times” Feature Could Kill the Queue
- Errol Morris, A Wilderness of Error (and more about Errol Morris)
- About Jeffrey MacDonald
- About the controversies over Fatal Vision
- The Thin Blue Line
- Serial, season one
- Janet Malcolm, The Journalist and the Murderer
- Daniel Medwed, The Innocent Prisoner’s Dilemma: Consequences of Failing to Admit Guilt at Parole Hearings (see also Rob Harris, The “Innocent Prisoner’s Dilemma”, an excellent NY Times video)
- Oral Argument 48: Legal Truth (guest Lisa Kern Griffin)
- The Insider
Special Guests: Dave Fagundes and Sonja West.