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Ghosts Of The Disciplinary Machine: Lee Harvey Oswald, Life-History, And The Truth Of Crime, Jonathan Simon
Ghosts Of The Disciplinary Machine: Lee Harvey Oswald, Life-History, And The Truth Of Crime, Jonathan Simon
Jonathan S Simon
Thirty-four years ago, the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, popularly known as the Warren Commission, published its famous report. The Commission's most famous conclusion, that Lee Harvey Oswald, acting alone, shot and killed President John F. Kennedy, has been the subject of ceaseless public debate. Such attention, of course, is understandable. The theory of a "lone gunman" seems too mundane an explanation for the closest crime a republic can have to regicide. The overwhelming popular interest in the Commission's judgment, however, has had the unfortunate consequence of deflecting analysis away from the Commission itself as a political …
Beyond Legal Realism?: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, And The Situation Of Legal Scholarship, Austin Sarat, Jonathan Simon
Beyond Legal Realism?: Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, And The Situation Of Legal Scholarship, Austin Sarat, Jonathan Simon
Jonathan S Simon
Everywhere it seems that culture is in ascendance. More and more social groups are claiming to have distinctive cultures and are demanding recognition of their cultural distinctiveness. Identity politics has merged with cultural politics, so that to have an identity one must now also have a culture. Those who fail to establish their culture risk having their "truth" missed by the myriad of authorities--courts, admissions committees, draft boards-whose judgments help determine life fates. As a result, it sometimes seems as if almost every ethnic, religious, or social group seeks to have its "culture" recognized, and for precisely this reason "the …