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Following Souter
May 7th 2009 | WASHINGTON, DC
From The Economist print edition

Barack Obama has a chance to rejuvenate the Supreme Court’s liberal wing

DAVID SOUTER … is a singular character. Though wealthy, he lives the life of Diogenes. He lunches frugally at his desk, typically on yogurt and an apple, which he eats to the core. He seldom goes out. He has no time for modern distractions such as television. But most unusually of all, despite having life tenure as a judge on the Supreme Court, he is planning to retire at the tender age of 69.

He loves judging but hates Washington, DC. He calls it the worst city in the world, though he has barely travelled. He yearns to return to his home in a tiny hamlet in New Hampshire, a dilapidated wooden farmhouse where he lives alone. …>>

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David Souter
by J.Stone

May 01, 2009, The University of Chicago Law School Faculty Blog

It would appear from the latest news reports that Justice David Souter is about to part ways with the Supreme Court after a nineteen-year tenure. At the time of his nomination by President George H. W. Bush, David Souter was a virtual unknown. In his long career as a justice on the New Hampshire Supreme Court, a judge on the New Hampshire trial court, and New Hampshire’s attorney general, he seldom had occasion to express his views on controversial constitutional issues. Many critics of the nomination complained that President Bush had found a “stealth candidate” who had no “paper trail” but was secretly a rock-solid conservative determined to overturn Roe v. Wade and to outlaw affirmative action. It didn’t turn out quite that way. …>>

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United States
The Supreme Court

Change at the top
May 1st 2009
From Economist.com

The retirement of Justice David Souter will let Barack Obama begin to shape the Supreme Court …>>

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NYT blog: The Conversation: Talking between columns / May 6, 2009, 12:46 pm

Who Will Replace Souter?
By David Brooks and Gail Collins

Gail Collins: David, I’m really eager to hear your opinions about the upcoming debate over a new Supreme Court justice. Here are some thoughts …>>

http://theconversation.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/who-will-replace-souter/#more-155

Echo der Zeit vom Di, 5.5.2009, 18.00 Uhr / Beitrag 5 von 9   

Krise im Blätterwald

Die Traditionszeitungen in den USA stecken tief in der Krise: Grosse Namen wie die «Los Angeles Times», die «Chicago Tribune» und nun auch der «Boston Globe» haben immense finanzielle Schwierigkeiten.

Wie kam es zu dieser Krise? Was können die Zeitungen tun? Der frühere Chefredaktor der «New York Times», Max Frankel, antwortet auf diese Fragen im Gespräch mit dem «Echo der Zeit». …>> (audio)

A discussion about Swine Flu with Laurie Garrett, Senior Fellow for Global Health at the Council on Foreign Relations, Jeffrey Koplan, Vice President for Global Health at Emory University and Donald McNeil of “The New York Times”

in Science & Health / on Monday, April 27, 2009

A conversation about the economy with Bill Ackman, major investor and hedge fund manager of Pershing Square Capital Management LP, Kate Kelly of The Wall Street Journal, Andrew Ross Sorkin of The New York Times and Joseph Stiglitz, economist and a member of Columbia University faculty

in Current Affairs / on Friday, April 24, 2009

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A conversation with Lionel Barber, editor of the “Financial Times”

in Current Affairs, Business / on Friday, April 24, 2009

A Moderate Manifesto
By DAVID BROOKS 2009/March/2 NYT

You wouldn’t know it some days, but there are moderates in this country — moderate conservatives, moderate liberals, just plain moderates. We sympathize with a lot of the things that President Obama is trying to do. We like his investments in education and energy innovation. We support health care reform that expands coverage while reducing costs. …>>

Big-Spending Conservative
By DAVID BROOKS 2009/April/21 NYT

President Obama is arguing for his activist agenda as a defense of middle-class morality and is positioning Democrats as the party of order and small-town values. This should make Republicans nervous. …>>

The Republican Collapse
By DAVID BROOKS 2007/October/5 NYT

Modern conservatism begins with Edmund Burke. What Burke articulated was not an ideology or a creed, but a disposition, a reverence for tradition, a suspicion of radical change. …>>

The End of Philosophy
By DAVID BROOKS NYT 2009/April/7 NYT

Today, many psychologists, cognitive scientists and even philosophers embrace a different view of moral thinking based less on reason and deliberation and more on seeing and evaluating. …>>

A conversation with David Brooks of “The New York Times”

in Current Affairs / on Thursday, April 23, 2009

A review of President Obama’s trip to Europe and unannounced stop in Baghdad with David Sanger, White House Correspondent for “The New York Times”

in Current Affairs / on Tuesday, April 7, 2009

A conversation with architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable, author of “On Architecture: Collected Reflections on a Century of Change”

in Art & Design / on Thursday, April 2, 2009

Mykolas Drunga: Kas išeis iš drąsos ir atsargumo mišinio? 2009 04 04 / 11:32, lrt.lt

March 24, 2009, 10:33 am NYT
Will the Geithner Plan Work?
By The Editors

We asked four economists — Paul Krugman, Simon Johnson, Brad DeLong and Mark Thoma — to tackle this question.

Paul Krugman, Op-Ed columnist, Princeton University
Simon Johnson, M.I.T.
Brad DeLong, U.C. Berkeley
Mark Thoma, University of Oregon