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• Sulmaan Wasif Khan, author of Haunted by Chaos, defined “grand strategy with Chinese characteristics” on The American Interest’s podcast.
• Harper’s published a letter, excerpted from Nicholas Frankel’s The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde, from Wilde to the editor of the Daily Chronicle on the inhumane treatment of imprisoned children at Reading Gaol.
• David Moss, author of Democracy: A Case Study, argued for the resilience of American democracy on the Bloomberg Radio podcast Politics, Policy, Power, and Law.
• A recent Center for American Progress report on reforming the American Medical Association’s Relative Value Scale Update Committee (RUC) draws heavily on Miriam Laugesen’s Fixing Medical Prices.

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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…