Fish politics, insect politics.

You may know I'm a longtime fan of the 1986 movie "The Fly," especially the part where the main character, the scientist-turne...

Why Stanley Fish never wants to meet his personal piñata Jürgen Habermas.

Because he's so important. Because he needs him so much: If he were taken away from me, I wouldn’t know what to do. I’d have to find som...

Stanley Fish finds Sarah Palin's book "compelling and very well done."

Unlike compulsive Sarah haters — like Andrew Sullivan and Michelle Goldberg —  Fish looks at the book as the form of literature it is, an ...

"Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan... would have won a third term easily and still could (even though Reagan is dead)."

That's not the first thing that amused me this morning, just the first thing that amused me enough to blog. It's from this Stanley F...

On classroom advocacy, diversity, and neutrality.

Lawprof Stanley Fish is doing guest columns this month in the NYT, and today -- TimesSelect link -- he's denouncing teachers who approp...

Stanley Fish to professors: "Do your job."

It's not about free speech. (And his speech isn't free either: you need TimesSelect to read it .) So, do your job... and make sure y...

"The occasion was not itself academic; it was theatrical."

Stanley Fish scrutinizes the Columbia incident where students rushed the stage and shut down the speech of Minuteman leader Jim Gilchrist. ...

When journalists express an opinion.

The NYT's "Public Editor," Byron Calame, writes about the dispute that arose when Linda Greenhouse -- the NYT's Supreme C...

Stanley Fish takes on the Kevin Barrett controversy.

Stanley Fish takes on the Kevin Barrett controversy in an op-ed in the NYT today: Mr. Barrett’s critics argue that academic freedom has lim...

"The most overrated essay in the modern canon... turgid, self-righteous and philosophically hopeless."

I'm just noticing how harshly Stanley Fish slammed George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language." This is in a revi...

Bluebooking blog comments.

So I'm writing this little essay for a conference about blogging. I'm arguing in favor of blogging on a multitude of topics and had ...

Stanley Fish has a blog...

And he's blogging about Scalia. Don't you want to link to it? But you can't! The NYT has put Fish in an aquarium: on TimesSelect...

30 questions for Alito.

The NYT op-ed page features six legal writers coming up with a total 30 questions for Samuel Alito. Leonard A. Leo, the executive vice pres...

Stanley Fish's bad analogy about Scalia's constitutional interpretation.

Stanley Fish has a NYT op-ed that's supposed to wise us up to the rhetoric of constitutional interpretation that's about to flow al...

"We are not interested in ideas."

Stanley Fish designs a writing class that banishes ideas, opinion, content . Why would you want to do that? "We don't do content i...

Why Kerry speaks so incomprehensibly ...

According to Stanley Fish . It's not that he's complex and nuanced: If you can't explain an idea or a policy plainly in one or t...

Stanley Fish and the good old ivory tower.

Stanley Fish, in an op-ed in today's NYT, says the search for truth should be the university's only mission. Our job as academics, ...