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• Breaker spoke at length to Primavera De Filippi and Aaron Wright, coauthors of Blockchain and the Law, about digital currencies, “immoral contracts,” and the unsettling concept of lex cryptographia—“order without law.”
• The Boston Review forum “MLK Now” featured opening and closing remarks by Brandon M. Terry, coeditor of To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr., as well as responses by Elizabeth Hinton, author of From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime, and Bernard Harcourt, author of Illusion of Order and Exposed.
• Hank Greely, author of The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction, explained preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) on CBS News.
• Allan Lichtman, author of The Embattled Vote in America, talked to Vox about the history of disenfranchisement in the United States and the dire consequences to American democracy of ongoing voter suppression.

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July 16: Stanley Cavell, Philosopher Untamed

Why not use the word “star,” Stanley asked in his breakthrough book on movies, The World Viewed, why not “the more beautiful and more accurate word,” rather than actor or actress? In philosophy he was a Hepburn, a Brando, a Dean, a Bacall, stars into whose souls he gave us entryways. I always thought of him and Hilary Putnam as the “glimmer twins.” Time was on their side, for so many decades, thank the lord. And on ours, too! We know he was here, and, alas, we know he’s gone now. Stanley attended monthly meetings of the Harvard University Press Board of Syndics. He dressed beautifully to attend our meetings, and he did his homework for them carefully, and spoke articulately on behalf of the books we had asked him to report on. And he would join the Press staff for or…