Andries du Toit
@abdutoit.bsky.social
Academic, writer, teacher, friend to (at least one) dog.
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MAGA has essentially weaponized “the theory of legal realism” — namely the (originally post-liberal leftist) idea that the law, in the end, is (just) a political construct.
The implication being that law professors are just bullshit artists masking the play of power.
FedSoc LOL.
The implication being that law professors are just bullshit artists masking the play of power.
FedSoc LOL.
They don't believe laws are facts, just rough approximations of potential behavior.
September 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
MAGA has essentially weaponized “the theory of legal realism” — namely the (originally post-liberal leftist) idea that the law, in the end, is (just) a political construct.
The implication being that law professors are just bullshit artists masking the play of power.
FedSoc LOL.
The implication being that law professors are just bullshit artists masking the play of power.
FedSoc LOL.
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More thoughts on the Los Angeles fire, with a hat tip to @revkin.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/nilsgilm...
More on the Los Angeles fires
It's not a new problem; indeed, the fact that it's an old problem is a big part of the problem
open.substack.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:28 PM
More thoughts on the Los Angeles fire, with a hat tip to @revkin.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/nilsgilm...
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The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.
January 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The looters I want to talk about are the ones who stole our safe and stable climate from us. Millennia of planetary harm for individuals' profit. They set the fires.
Moving and important piece on the situation in Syria. www.bostonreview.net/articles/syr...
Syria’s “Human Debris” - Boston Review
The new government’s greatest challenge may be rebuilding a just society in the aftermath of barbaric state violence.
www.bostonreview.net
January 11, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Moving and important piece on the situation in Syria. www.bostonreview.net/articles/syr...
So ‘forgiveness’ exists precisely in the gap between what justice needs and what history provides. A grim thought.
“The only way to overcome the inevitable tension between the need for justice and the need to move on is through forgiveness—not as an act of grace, but as a means to reclaim agency and break the cycle of violence.”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/syr...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/syr...
Syria’s “Human Debris” - Boston Review
The new government’s greatest challenge may be rebuilding a just society in the aftermath of barbaric state violence.
www.bostonreview.net
January 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
So ‘forgiveness’ exists precisely in the gap between what justice needs and what history provides. A grim thought.