Podcast appearances and mentions of Anthony T Kronman

In this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, she is joined by Anthony T. Kronman to discuss his book, After Disbelief: On Disenchantment, Disappointment, Eternity, and Joy, out now from Yale University Press. Anthony Kronman is Sterling Professor of Law and a former dean at Yale Law School. He is the author of Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan and Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life. He lives on Block Island, Rhode Island. Buy the book from RJ Julia After Disbelief: On Disenchantment, Disappointment, Eternity, and Joy Sign up for our podcast newsletter Just The Right Book Subscription Promo Code (15% off): Podcast Email us at: podcast@rjjulia.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, she is joined by Anthony T. Kronman to discuss his new book, After Disbelief: On Disenchantment, Disappointment, Eternity, and Joy, out now from Yale University Press. ________________________________ Anthony Kronman is Sterling Professor of Law and a former dean at Yale Law School. He is the author of Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan and Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life. He lives on Block Island, Rhode Island. Roxanne Coady is owner of R.J. Julia, one of the leading independent booksellers in the United States, which—since 1990—has been a community resource not only for books, but for the exchange of ideas. In 1998, Coady founded Read To Grow, which provides books for newborns and children and encourages parents to read to their children from birth. RTG has distributed over 1.5 million books. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Bill spoke with Professor Anthony T. Kronman to get his thoughts on the Russian war in Ukraine, the culture of political correctness in universities and his personal faith journey. Anthony Kronman is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School. A former Dean of Yale Law School, Professor Kronman teaches in the areas of contracts, bankruptcy, […]

Bill spoke with Professor Anthony T. Kronman to get his thoughts on the Russian war in Ukraine, the culture of political correctness in universities and his personal faith journey. Anthony Kronman is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School. A former Dean of Yale Law School, Professor Kronman teaches in the areas of contracts, bankruptcy, jurisprudence, social theory, and professional responsibility. Before coming to Yale, he taught at the University of Chicago. Among his books are Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life, Max Weber, Contracts: Cases and Materials (with F. Kessler and G. Gilmore), and Lost Lawyer. His latest book, Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan, was published by Yale University Press in 2016. Professor Kronman received his B.A. from Williams College, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy and J.D. from Yale.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Bill spoke with Professor Anthony T. Kronman to get his thoughts on the Russian war in Ukraine, the culture of political correctness in universities and his personal faith journey. Anthony Kronman is Sterling Professor of Law at Yale Law School. A former Dean of Yale Law School, Professor Kronman teaches in the areas of contracts, bankruptcy, […]

“Contract Law and the State of Nature” by Anthony T. Kronman (1985). The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Volume 1, Issue 1, SPRING 1985, Pages 5–32. A great introduction to mechanisms of contract enforcement outside the state.Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent It for a Complex Global Economy by Gillian K. Hadfield (2016)https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29587067-rules-for-a-flat-worldAssurance Contracts: mechanisms for incentivizing the creation of public goods.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assurance_contractDominant Assurance Contractshttps://www.cato-unbound.org/2017/06/07/alex-tabarrok/making-markets-work-better-dominant-assurance-contracts-some-other-helpfulAgoric’s Electronic Rights Protocol (ERTP). How cryptocurrencies and digital assets are minted on Agoric’s platform.https://agoric.com/documentation/ertp/guide/https://github.com/Agoric/ERTPAgoric’s Zoe framework for smart contracts:https://agoric.com/documentation/zoe/guide/https://github.com/Agoric/ERTP/tree/master/core/zoeThe Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Elseby Hernando de Soto https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/86154.The_Mystery_of_CapitalThe Digital Path by Mark S. Miller and Marc Stiegler (2003). A paper on how smart contracts can be used for property title, pre-Bitcoin.https://agoric.com/assets/pdf/papers/digital-path.pdfFinding The Greedy, Prodigal, and Suicidal Contracts at Scale  (2018) https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.06038.pdfGreat paper that characterizes a number of problems that smart contracts can have, and how common they are. They used symbolic execution to search through nearly a million contracts for indicators of various problems.

The former dean of Yale Law School argues that the feverish egalitarianism gripping college campuses today is out of place at institutions whose job is to prepare citizens to live in a vibrant democracy. In his tenure at Yale, Anthony Kronman has watched students march across campus to protest the names of buildings and seen colleagues resign over emails about Halloween costumes. He is no stranger to recent confrontations at American universities. But where many see only the suppression of free speech, the babying of students, and the drive to bury the imperfect parts of our history, Kronman recognizes in these on-campus clashes a threat to our democracy. Shermer and Kronman discuss: free speech vs. hate speech how language effects how we think about other people diversity of characteristics (race, gender) vs. diversity of viewpoints the search for universal truths vs. understanding other’s perspectives affirmative action in the academy: from the University of California to Harvard taking down statues of Hitler and Stalin vs. taking down statues of Confederate Generals the problem of applying current moral values to the past, and how to reform the academy to refocus on excellence. Anthony T. Kronman served as the dean of Yale Law School from 1994–2004, and has taught at the university for forty years. He is the author or coauthor of five books, including The Assault on American Excellence; Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life; and Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan. Listen to Science Salon via iTunes, Spotify, Google Play Music, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and Soundcloud. You play a vital part in our commitment to promote science and reason. If you enjoy the Science Salon Podcast, please show your support by making a donation, or by becoming a patron.

David Brooks begins his New York Times editorial on Anthony Kronman by saying, "Not long ago, an astonishing book landed on my desk." Joshua Rothman begins his New Yorker piece this way: "Anthony Kronman, age seventy-one, may be the world’s most fulfilled man." Kronman, former dean of Yale Law School and a longtime Yale teacher of philosophy and law, has taken what might be the first big intellectual swing in decades at what faith can look like in today's Western world. Blue Ocean Faith's Dave Schmelzer chats with Professor Kronman about the wonder and fulfillment he finds in what he calls "born-again paganism."  Mentioned in today's podcast: Books Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan - Anthony T. Kronman Articles "The Beauty of Big Books" - David Brooks; The New York Times, October 4, 2016 "The Sage of Yale Law" - Joshua Rothman; The New Yorker, May 16, 2017  

Anthony T. Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law, discusses his latest book "Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life". Prof. Kronman discusses the relinquished role of the humanities — specifically an exploration of the meaning of life — in higher education

In this episode of Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady, she is joined by Anthony T. Kronman to discuss his book, After Disbelief: On Disenchantment, Disappointment, Eternity, and Joy, out now from Yale University Press. Anthony Kronman is Sterling Professor of Law and a former dean at Yale Law School. He is the author of Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan and Education's End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life. He lives on Block Island, Rhode Island. Buy the book from RJ Julia: After Disbelief: On Disenchantment, Disappointment, Eternity, and JoySign up for our podcast newsletterJust The Right Book SubscriptionPromo Code (15% off): PodcastEmail us at: podcast@rjjulia.com