A Conversation with Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman

A Conversation with Jonathan Scheiman

T he weeks before and after the 2015 Boston Marathon were busy times for Jonathan Scheiman. “I was riding around Boston five hours a day picking up s--in a Zipcar and putting it on dry ice on the back seat,” he says. The fecal cargo came from 20 marathon runners. Scheiman and his colleagues at Harvard University brought the samples back to their lab and sequenced the DNA in the feces to identif...

Chief Judge Martin and the Modern Sixth Circuit

I wish to thank Michael Higdon and Peggy Sanner for valuable suggestions, Eleanor Davison and Mike Gillooly for processing this piece, and Jim Rogers for generous, continuing support. Errors that remain are mine.

Perspective of a Juvenile Court Judge Judge

The juvenile court judge occupies a unique position. Like all other judges, the juvenile court judge must apply the law to resolve a dispute. For juvenile court judges handling abuse and neglect cases, however, the law requires a new type of role. The judge must monitor whether child welfare agencies have provided services to individual children and families sufficient to comply with federal an...

Philosophy, Art and Critique: A (short) conversation with the “other”

The article sketches a nexus between philosophy, art (poetry) and critique with a particular emphasis on the contribution of classical Muslim philosophers. At the same time, it demonstrates how luminaries such as Omar Khayyam and Ibn Sina, contributed to the renewal of philosophy as a freedom seeking exercise and as a means to pursue happiness through knowledge. In the second&nbs...

Jonathan Martin Whitfield, MB ChB, FRCP(C): a conversation with the editor. Interview by William Clifford Roberts.