by Martin Newhouse | Mar 4, 2010 | The Public Humanist
Part I – Where Citizens United fits in our First Amendment Jurisprudence The uproar, mainly from the liberal side of the aisle (although some conservatives don’t like it either), over the Supreme Court’s recent First Amendment decision in Citizens...
by Martin Newhouse | Mar 8, 2010 | The Public Humanist
Part II of “The First Amendment Wars: Calming Down about the Citizens United Decision” In a thought-provoking analysis of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Professor Stanley Fish suggests that the...
by Drew Adamek | Mar 11, 2010 | The Public Humanist
Act One, Scene One: A small town in the American Heartland Sirens scream down a quiet street. Five squad cars, lights ablaze, race to a most unlikely location: the quaint home of Mary Jane X. Officers arrive at a shocking scene: an unknown assailant has brutally...
by Julie Mallozzi | Mar 19, 2010 | The Public Humanist
This week I’m driving up to Montréal to film the most bloody scene I’ve ever shot. My documentary film subject, Lalita Bharvani, is having open-heart surgery, and the hospital has surprisingly granted me permission to film in the operating room. I...
by Andrea Assaf | Mar 23, 2010 | The Public Humanist
Question: What is the relationship between aesthetic tastes and political ideology? I. How do we form our aesthetic tastes, our likes and dislikes? By familiarity, or the frequency with which we’ve been exposed to something, which influences the level of comfort...
