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Legislative speech records from the 101st to 108th Congresses of the US Senate are analysed to study political ideologies. A widely-used text classification algorithm – Support Vector Machines (SVM) – allows the extraction of terms that are most indicative of conservative and liberal positions in legislative speeches and the prediction of senators’ ideological positions, with a 92 per cent leve...

In this paper I first aim to identify, from a perspective mindful of both analytic and Continental traditions, the central normative issues at stake in the various debates concerning commodification in law. Although there now exists a wealth of thoughtful literature in this area, I often find myself disoriented within the webs of moral criteria used to analyze the increasingly ubiquitous practi...

Democratic Dialogue in Education: Troubling Speech, Disturbing Silence edited by Megan Boler is a philosophical inquiry into the merits of fostering democratic dialogue in the college classroom through the selective silencing and voicing of student participants. The contributors offer creative and sometimes conflicting perspectives on the use of dialogue in the classroom; however, all are criti...

This paper explores conceptions of rural-tourist landscapes in late nineteenth century Vermont. Traditionally, scholarly and popular discourse about rural tourism have identified nostalgia and the tourist’s search for harmonious pastoral landscapes as dominant themes in tourist promotions, and as dominant motivations for tourist travel. This paper adds alternative perspectives to this discourse...