It’s our second annual call-out show, and it’s a double-sized episode meant to last two weeks. We’re joined by listeners and previous guests who share with us the bits of culture — books, movies, and television — that have affected them and their experience of law and policy. Many things come up, but here’s the rundown:


Listener Cameron, 0:00, Les Misérables
Listener Michael, 26:11, JFK, the film
Listener Bunny, 44:28, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Measure of a Man
Listener and co-host Sonja West, 1:11:26, The Feminine Mystique
Listener and co-host Dave Fagundes, 1:41:25, A Wilderness of Error
Mom, 2:10:14, Honor Council, The Insider, Serial


This show’s links:


Oral Argument 44: Serial (A Double-Sized Episode with Many Special Guests)
About Les Misérables (and a list of its various incarnations on film and stage)
About the “Ban the Box” movement
Hicks v. District of Columbia (in which Justice Douglas cites Les Mis in dissent); Harmelin v. Michigan (approving Michigan’s “three strikes” law); and the dissent from the denial of cert in Riggs v. California (in which the defendant’s third strike under California’s law was for stealing a bottle of vitamins); People v. Taylor (a state court appellate case in which the dissent begins: “In a scenario somewhat reminiscent of a late 20th Century, real life Les Miserables, a hungry, homeless man is sent away for 25 years to life for trying to break into a church so he could eat some food he thought the church would be glad for him to have.”)
JFK, the 1991 film
About the assassination of JFK
Philosophy Bites: Quasi Cassam on Conspiracy Theories
Hold Up!
About the legislative impact of JFK
About Making a Murderer
Oral Argument 37: Hammer Blow (guest Michael Dorf)
The Measure of a Man, an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation; Picard’s argument for Data’s sentience (youtube)
About positronic brains
Richard Fisher, Is It OK to Torture or Murder a Robot
Oral Argument 41: Sense-Think-Act (guest Ryan Calo)
About the technological singularity
Her
Ray Kurzweil, The Age of Spiritual Machines
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique
Rostker v. Goldberg (upholding the male-only military draft)
Jerome Wakefield, The Concept of Mental Disorder
The oral argument in Lawrence v. Texas
Amy Argetsinger, Robert Spitzer, Psychiatrist of Transformative Influence, Dies at 83
Oral Argument 55: Cronut Lines (guest Dave Fagundes), discussing Waiting in Line: Norms, Markets, and the Law
Lauren Davidson, Google’s New “Popular Times” Feature Could Kill the Queue
Errol Morris, A Wilderness of Error (and more about Errol Morris)
About Jeffrey MacDonald
About the controversies over Fatal Vision
The Thin Blue Line
Serial, season one
Janet Malcolm, The Journalist and the Murderer
Daniel Medwed, The Innocent Prisoner’s Dilemma: Consequences of Failing to Admit Guilt at Parole Hearings (see also Rob Harris, The “Innocent Prisoner’s Dilemma”, an excellent NY Times video)
Oral Argument 48: Legal Truth (guest Lisa Kern Griffin)
The Insider
Special Guests: Dave Fagundes and Sonja West.