Some thought-provoking articles for the summer

Today's news posits some interesting opportunities to stretch my summer thinking. I heard that the great Linda Greenhouse, the BEST Supreme Court reporter there is, will be retiring from the NY Times job. The simple, straight-forward and lucid prose that she explained, in terms we all could begin to understand, dense Supreme Court decisions will be missed. Going, but not forgotten. We have one week left to ask her questions at the NY Times by sending questions to askthetimes@nytimes.com. In addition, read her thoughts as she departs.

On a totally unrelated subject, another article in the Times asks for feedback on the questions of whether human rights should extend to non-humans (e.g., apes).

Finally, today, there is an online article from Eugene Volokh (and Robert J. Cottrol, Sanford Levinson, L.A. Powe, Jr., and Glenn Harlan Reynolds), discussion "The Second Amendment as Teaching Tool in Constitutional Law Classes," published at 48 Journal of Legal Education 591 (1998). This thought-provoking article will stimulate any teacher of con law. It is written for law school professors, but why limit the fun to just them? In light of the recent Supreme Court decision in D.C. v. Heller, it bears re-reading.