Think Again by Stanley Fish -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Introduction Part 1: Personal Reflections

1.1: My Life Report 1.2: ’Tis the Season 1.3: Max the Plumber 1.4: Is It Good for the Jews? 1.5: My Life on the Court 1.6: The Kid and Old Blue Eyes 1.7: Travel Narrows 1.8: I Am, Therefore I Pollute 1.9: Why We Can’t Just Get Along 1.10: Truth and Conspiracy in the Catskills 1.11: Moving On

Part 2: Aesthetic Reflections

2.1: Why Do Writers Write? 2.2: Two Aesthetics 2.3: Norms and Deviations: Who’s to Say? 2.4: The Ten Best American Movies 2.5: Giving Kim Novak Her Due 2.6: Larger than Life: Charlton Heston 2.7: Vengeance Is Mine 2.8: Little Big Men 2.9: Narrative and the Grace of God: The New True Grit 2.10: Les Misérables and Irony 2.11: No Way Out: 12 Years a Slave 2.12: Stand Your Ground, Be a Man 2.13: Country Roads

Part 3: Cultural Reflections

3.1: Professor Sokal’s Bad Joke 3.2: French Theory in America 3.3: Dorothy and the Tree: A Lesson in Epistemology 3.4: Does Philosophy Matter? 3.5: What Did Watson the Computer Do? 3.6: None of the Answers: Charles Van Doren Finally Speaks, or Does He? 3.7: Can I Put You on Hold? 3.8: So’s Your Old Man 3.9: Two Cheers for Double Standards 3.10: Favoritism Is Good

Part 4: Reflections on Politics

4.1: Condemnation without Absolutes 4.2: The All-Spin Zone 4.3: Against Independent Voters 4.4: When “Identity Politics” Is Rational 4.5: Blowin’ in the Wind 4.6: Looking for Gas in All the Wrong Places 4.7: When Principles Get in the Way 4.8: Revisiting Affirmative Action, with Help from Kant 4.9: Is the NRA Un-American? 4.10: All You Need Is Hate 4.11: How the Right Hijacked the Magic Words

Part 5: Reflections on the Law

5.1: Why Scalia Is Right 5.2: How Scalia Is Wrong 5.3: Intentional Neglect 5.4: What Did the Framers Have in Mind? 5.5: What Is the First Amendment For? 5.6: How the First Amendment Works 5.7: What Does the First Amendment Protect? 5.8: The First Amendment and Kittens 5.9: Sticks and Stones 5.10: The Harm in Free Speech 5.11: Hate Speech and Stolen Valor 5.12: Going in Circles with Hate Speech 5.13: Our Faith in Letting It All Hang Out

Part 6: Reflections on Religion

6.1: The Three Atheists 6.2: Atheism and Evidence 6.3: Is Religion Man-Made? 6.4: God Talk 6.5: Suffering, Evil, and the Existence of God 6.6: Liberalism and Secularism: One and the Same 6.7: Are There Secular Reasons? 6.8: Serving Two Masters: Sharia Law and the Secular State 6.9: Religion and the Liberal State Once Again 6.10: Religion without Truth 6.11: Is the Establishment Clause Unconstitutional? 6.12: The Religion Clause Divided against Itself 6.13: When Is a Cross a Cross? 6.14: Being Neutral Is Oh So Hard to Do

Part 7: Reflections on Liberal Arts Education

7.1: Why We Built the Ivory Tower 7.2: There’s No Business like Show Business 7.3: Tip to Professors: Just Do Your Job 7.4: Devoid of Content 7.5: What Should Colleges Teach? 7.6: Will the Humanities Save Us? 7.7: The Uses of the Humanities 7.8: The Value of Higher Education Made Literal 7.9: A Classical Education: Back to the Future 7.10: Deep in the Heart of Texas 7.11: The Digital Humanities and the Transcending of Mortality 7.12: Mind Your P’s and B’s: The Digital Humanities and Interpretation

Part 8: Reflections on Academic Freedom

8.1: Conspiracy Theories 101 8.2: Always Academicize: My Response to the Responses 8.3: A Closing Argument (for Now) 8.4: The Two Languages of Academic Freedom 8.5: Are Academics Different? 8.6: The Kushner Flap: Much Ado about Nothing 8.7: Sex, the Koch Brothers, and Academic Freedom 8.8: To Boycott or Not to Boycott, That Is the Question 8.9: Academic Freedom against Itself: Boycotting Israeli Universities 8.10: Boycotting Israeli Universities: Part 2 8.11: So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You

Acknowledgments Index