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Americans have always been a little flag-crazy, and I am no exception. Shortly after 9/11, I happened to arrive at JFK – the same airport runway from which I had watched the trade towers explode – and saw through the airplane porthole an airport worker waving the plane to its berth. He was guiding the pilot with the usual gestures, except that in each hand he held a small American flag. I remembered...
We have a soft spot for Columbia Law School, especially after our excellent visit there on Wednesday ("our" = Lat + Kash). Thanks to the CLS Federalist Society , the sponsor of our talk, for the warm welcome. We also have a soft spot for celebrity professors. Like Columbia law prof PhilipBobbitt -- no relation to John and Lorena Bobbitt , presumably -- who was recently profiled...
... I am "one of those"—a true blue India lover! (As a matter of professional interest, I'd suggest PhilipBobbitt's Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century . I had just started it; it's a tough slog, but truly an original work.) TrackBack (0) | Posted by Tom Peters | Comments?
A quick book round-up from the Reno airport, of all places: Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century by PhilipBobbitt is taken up in the December 4 issue of the New York Review of Books by David Cole (subscription required for access). Cole writes: Bobbitt maintains that the defining struggle of the twenty-first century will pit "market states of consent," such...
Show 282 Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century. Dennis Prager talks to PhilipBobbitt, Professor of Federal Jurisprudence and the Director of the Center for National Security at Columbia University. He is also Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas. His latest book is Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-First...
Prospect carries an exchange of views between PhilipBobbitt and David Hannay on the idea of a league of democracies. For reasons I've set out before, it's an idea towards which I'm favourably disposed. PhilipBobbitt puts the case for...
Connecting strategy, law and history This is an extract from the brilliant introductory chapter of PhilipBobbitt’s remarkable The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace and the Course of History. Bobbitt disputes the view—including The Acorn’s—that law exists in practice because of the state. Be that as it may, what is interesting about Bobbitt’s thesis is his [...]
... his 36 years in public life. “He is a much more supple mind than he is usually portrayed,” said PhilipBobbitt, an international relations scholar and Democrat the senator consulted this summer. But when he confronts an adversary, a starkly different John McCain can emerge, fired up with certainty for an all-or-nothing battle. “I am going to win this thing and you are going to have...
