Abstract

Diary of a Mad Law Professor

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has been traveling around the country recently as part of a nationwide post-September 11, 2001 effort to promote debate about civic values in schools and colleges. According to "The Boston Globe," Kennedy spent a day in that Boston's top public school, Boston Latin Academy, and proposed a scenario in which "students accidentally end up on a three-day layover in a very poor imaginary nation called Quest, where a young charismatic man, preaches that the decadent United States should be destroyed. In the spring issue of the "Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy," Harvard law professor Richard Parker, urges the "making" of patriotism as a mobilization of emotion "a political equivalent of love" that must be "grounded like electricity."