Legislation passed in response to a serious terrorist attack is frequently criticized on two different grounds. First, the critic argues that the legislation grants "too much" power to the executive, relative to some substantive benchmark. Second, the critic impeaches the process by which the legislation was enacted, arguing that it was hasty, ill deliberated or ill informed, or panic-ridden. I...

T his question, asked by Senator Joseph Biden of Delaware at the hearing considering the nomination of John G. Roberts to be Chief Justice of the United States, illustrates the extent to which cognitive neuroscience —increasingly augmented by the growing powers of neuroimaging—has captured the imagination of those who make, enforce, interpret, and study the law. Judges, both state and federal, ...

The Tea Party movement, which rose to prominence in the United States after the election of President Barack Obama, provides an ideal context in which to examine the roles of racial concerns and ideology in politics. A three-wave longitudinal study tracked changes in White Americans' self-identification with the Tea Party, racial concerns (prejudice and racial identification), and ideologies (l...

Some people in Japan are still comfortable with the paternalistic role of doctors, but others wish that their own decisions would receive a greater amount of respect. A total of 747 students of universities and colleges and 114 parents of these students participated in a questionnaire survey. Most of the participants thought that autonomy should be respected in situations involving death with d...

The Student Senate unanimously p a sse d a r e so lu t io n W ednesday allowing the College Republicans, Democrats and Libertarians to use University-allocated funds to support the nominated candidates of their respective parties. While the groups cannot directly donate to any candidate and any appearance by a political speaker m ust follow the guidelines which apply to all speakers, the new re...

Contra critical rationalism, the response begins by referring to “the variety of internalist and externalist versions foundationalism” (Liberty, December 2002). But it makes no attempt explain or defend any them. Hence, further criticism is due here. The then argues that, “The rationalist method seems suggest that Lester’s extreme compatibility thesis probably false” because—quoting Escape from...

the comparative and contrastive analysis of pun (jeans) in arabic and persian languages has been making the liberian’s minds engaged for ages. in the present essay, there has been a chance of studying and clarifying some of the differences of opinion between the two languages’ literatures regarding the pun in general, and the mosaic rhyme (compound pun) in specific. to do so, in the first place...

Although authorized by statutes, involuntary civil commitment in this country was largely a clinical process until the 1960s. Patients were hospitalized on the statements of one or two physicians, without advice of counsel, opportunities to defend themselves in hearings, or any legal recourse save habeus corpus writs, which were seldom used and even less frequently successful. 1.2 When courts b...

According to the widely accepted opinion, classical (statistical) physics does not support objective indeterminism, since the statistical laws of classical physics allow a deterministic hidden background, while — as Arthur Fine writes polemizing with Grünbaum — ”the antilibertarian position finds little room to breathe in a statistical world if we take laws of the quantum theory as exemplars of...

F or the most part Ludwig von Mises's writings on society and social evolution have been ignored by the participants in the current revivals of both Austrian economics and classical liberal political philosophy. When his social theory has been addressed, Mises appears to his critics (Barry 1987, p. 59) as "a child of the Enlightenment wrongly deposited in the twentieth century." But this assess...