Best and worst books I read this year
I take a look at the best and worst books I read this year. The best was Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Fankl, recommended to me by my friend Andrew Heaton. The worst was probably Freedom: An Unruly History by Annelein de Dijn, which is just flat out dishonest. (You can read my review of it here.)
Speaking of intellectual dishonesty…
For those following the saga of the American Indian Law Review’s cancellation of my article “The Federalism Problems with the Indian Child Welfare Act,” the editor emailed me last week to say that they would go ahead and publish the article, after all—but they wanted a bunch of changes, first. These changes were transparent efforts to retroactively justify their decision to breach their contract with me—for example, the editor claimed that “Part I of the article is dedicated largely to the biological classification [in ICWA]. However, Morton v. Mancari, U.S. v. Antelope, Rice v. Cayetano, and U.S. v. Sandoval..." etc., etc.—wanting me to address these cases. But as you can see by just looking at the article, Part I is not devoted at all to the biological classification in ICWA! That is the subject of a separate article, “The Unconstitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act,” that is scheduled for publication in another journal. For a second, I wondered if the American Indian Law Review folks had confused the two….
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