John Hickey
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Introduction | Raised Irish-Catholic in Philadelphia, I moved to New Hampshire after getting a law degree at West Virginia University. I am back now in Germantown in Philadelphia. I try to stay open to "continuing revelation," as the Quakers say. My recent posts on legal issues are not intended as legal advice. |
| Interests | Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. Jesus, Luke 6:37 The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Jesus, Matt 10:7 |
| Favorite Movies | Min and Bill(for which Marie Dressler won the Academy Award in 1930), The Awful Truth, The Thin Man, Front Page, 1930s movies generally, even the bad ones, but I like the ones with smart, funny women. More recently; Wings of Desire, North Fork, Little Miss Sunshine. |
| Favorite Music | Tinariwen, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Cream, Sonny Landreth's "Congo Square" from Grant Street. |
| Favorite Books | Donald Barthelme, Judy Budnitz, The collected works of Carl Jung; The Portable Jung, ed., Joseph Campbell; The Diamond Sutra with Commentaries, ed. and trans., Red Pine; The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, (Lawrence of Arabia's personal report of the Middle East as it emerged from the First World War); The Kingdom, by Robert Lacey (the twentieth-century founding of Saudi Arabia); The Idea of Usury: From Tribal Brotherhood to Universal Otherhood, by Benjamin Nelson (the history, from Deuteronomy onward, of charging interest on loans, and how that history entwined Judaism with Christianity); The King James Bible; God's Secretaries, by Adam Nicolson (the King James Bible as "irenicon, " using gorgeous ambiguity to evoke assent); Magna Carta: Legend and Legacy, by William Finley Swindler; John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court, by R. Kent Newmyer; Quarrels That Have Shaped the Constitution, by John Arthur Garraty; The Transformation of American Law 1780-1860, by Morton J. Horwitz, (the bending of law to American economic development); The Common Law, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (law versus morality); The Nature of the Judicial Process, by Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, (law as instrument of policy); A Matter of Interpretation, by Antonin Scalia, (Constitution as Common Law) |