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...also were pleased to see the arrest of Hollywood director and part-time child rapist Roman Polanski by the Swiss police. We expressed disgust at the arguments made by some in Hollywood that Polanski deserved clemency due to being an artist, as if artists were above the law. We reject this hypocritical position and asserted firmly that...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Rays of Hope | 5/27/2010 | See Source »

...must endure such injustices on the regular. Always struggling, we sigh, we roll our eyes in disgust, and we speak aloud to any who will listen about the real mistreatments that seem like a barrage of death sentences...

Author: By James A. Mcfadden | Title: First-World Problems: Navigating our Struggles | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

Demands to know Venables’s new crime reek of hysterical persecution and desire for revenge. The 1993 murder sent a jolt throughout Britain, and disgust at the event lead to adults crowding around the court, where they banged on the children’s van, thirsty for retribution. Similarly, the desire for information about the new crime of an ex-convict seems to be a product of natural but legally unreasonable anger. Comparably strong emotions affected the original trial, and the European Court of Human Rights later ruled that the high scrutiny and “incomprehensible...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill | Title: The Innocence of Youth? | 5/10/2010 | See Source »

Martha Nussbaum, a law professor at the University of Chicago, who studied Classics and ancient philosophy at Harvard, recently gave a speech at the Harvard Book Store for her new book, “From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and Constitutional Law.”  Nussbaum sat down with FM to give the low-down on her new book, her views on same-sex rights (see Greek military strategy circa 500 B.C.), and the legality behind public...

Author: By Jose A. Delreal, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Martha Nussbaum | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

Martha Nussbaum: I think the message they should take away is that a lot of the legal discussions in this area have been influenced by irrational emotions of disgust and stigma, and that those are not good bases for law-making in a pluralistic society. And then when we remove that element and just look at the arguments in a clear-eyed way, I think it’s clear that the Constitution does support non-discrimination laws for gays and lesbians...

Author: By Jose A. Delreal, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 15 Questions with Martha Nussbaum | 4/8/2010 | See Source »

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