Robert C Post

Datos Biográficos

ID301434
NOMBRERobert C Post
NOMBRESRobert C
APELLIDOPost
FIRMAPOST R C
AFILIACIONESYale University
ORCID0000-0002-2581-919X
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS75
TOTAL DE CITAS84
TOTAL COMO AUTOR74
TOTAL COMO EDITOR2
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1972
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H5

  • A conversation on academic freedom and freedom of expression at the university

    Open AccessRobert C Post, Jordi PujolARTICLEChurch, Communication and Culture2024

    In this academic interview, Yale law professor Robert C. Post elucidates the distinction between freedom of expression and academic freedom, emphasizing that universities are communities guided by the twin missions of education and knowledge production. At their best, universities function as ‘disciplinary communities’ who must act in professionally competent ways. Post characterizes academic freedom as a ‘two-faced coin’. On the one hand, academ…

  • The Unfortunate Consequences of a Misguided Free Speech Principle

    Open AccessRobert C PostARTICLEDaedalus2024

    For at least the past half-century, Americans have been committed to a “free speech principle,” holding that speech is to be encouraged because it serves to produce knowledge, to enable the development of personal autonomy, and to facilitate the self-governance of the nation. In this essay, I argue that any such abstract free speech principle is fundamentally misguided. The value of speech is instead the value of the social practice within which …

  • The Taft Court

    Open AccessRobert C PostBOOKThe Taft Court2023

    The Taft Court offers the definitive history of the Supreme Court from 1921 to 1930 when William Howard Taft was Chief Justice. Using untapped archival material, Robert C. Post engagingly recounts the ambivalent effort to create a modern American administrative state out of the institutional innovations of World War I. He shows how the Court sought to establish authoritative forms of constitutional interpretation despite the culture wars that env…

  • The Taft Court

    Robert C PostBOOKThe Taft Court2023

  • Civil Society and Government

    Nancy L Rosenblum, Robert C PostBOOKCivil Society and Government2021

  • Law, Art, Politics, and Justice

    Open AccessRobert C PostARTICLELaw Culture and the Humanities2020

  • A World Without Law; A World Without Politics

    Open AccessRobert C Post, Robert PostCHAPTERDebating Transformations of…2018

    Text-based, voluntary cloud-based communities can sustain the values of civil-society, but it is difficult to imagine how they can generate laws that are involuntary and that operate on the bodies of participants.

  • Citizens Divided

    Robert C Post, Robert Post et al.BOOKCitizens Divided2014

    The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which struck down a federal prohibition on independent corporate campaign expenditures, is one of the most controversial opinions in recent memory. Defenders of the First Amendment greeted the ruling with enthusiasm, while advocates of electoral reform recoiled in disbelief. Robert Post offers a new constitutional theory that seeks to reconcile these sharply divid…

  • Personal Responsibility And Obesity

    Kelly D Brownell, Rogan Kersh et al.ARTICLEHealth Affairs2010

    The concept of personal responsibility has been central to social, legal, and political approaches to obesity. It evokes language of blame, weakness, and vice and is a leading basis for inadequate government efforts, given the importance of environmental conditions in explaining high rates of obesity. These environmental conditions can override individual physical and psychological regulatory systems that might otherwise stand in the way of weigh…

  • Back at the Start

    Robert C PostARTICLETechnology and Culture2010Citada por: 1

    Melvin Kranzberg founded the Society for the History of Technology and its journal in an uncommon spirit of optimism. While optimism was justified by Technology and Culture 's subscribers and contributors, his hope that "the larger historical community" would embrace the journal was slow to materialize. Complaints about T&C 's persistent "progress talk" and "narrow" inquiries had some substance. But this essay suggests that fifty years have given…

  • The Land Speed Record and the Last Green Monster

    Robert C PostARTICLETechnology and Culture2009

    The Land Speed Record and the Last Green Monster Robert C. Post (bio) One sees a man and a machine that is hard to identify: It might just be a big toy—there’s something on the right that resembles a key to wind it up, and a wheel about the size of a tricycle’s—but with a row of flush rivets and a tailfin it looks more like a vehicle designed to go very fast. Of course it could be both. The man is standing on a blanket in booties and zipping up a…

  • Chance and Contingency

    Robert C PostARTICLETechnology and Culture2009

    Chance and ContingencyPutting Mel Kranzberg in Context Robert C. Post . . . what would happen if Mary Tudor had borne a son, or if Mary of Modena had failed to bear one, or . . . if a storm had not destroyed the Armada. . . . —Charles W. Cole, “The Relativity of History” “The Relativity of History” appeared in the Political Science Quarterly for June 1933, the same year that Charles Beard delivered his presidential address to the American Histori…

  • Debating Disciplinarity

    Robert C Post, Robert Post et al.ARTICLECritical Inquiry2009Citada por: 12

    I am a lawyer, and lawyers have their priors. One is that no question is innocent. Every question springs from an agenda that determines the range of acceptable answers. So if I amasked, as I have been for these remarks, “what is a discipline?” I want to know who is asking and for what purpose.\nSometimes questions of disciplinarity seek criteria for validating the “eccentric” angle of vision of a particular “intellectual” community in terms of i…

  • Forman

    Robert C Post, John KrigeARTICLEHistory and Technology2008

    When Mel Kranzberg turned over the editorship of Technology and Culture in 1981, he assured me that I need not ‘run in exactly the same direction’ as before, even as he insisted that one thing shou

  • Congress & the court

    Open AccessRobert C PostARTICLEDaedalus2008

  • Silvio A. Bedini, 1917-2007

    Robert C PostARTICLETechnology and Culture2008

    Silvio A. Bedini, 1917–2007 Robert C. Post (bio) "[A] seeking mind always filled with new projects"—so wrote Silvio Bedini in his T&C memorial for Bern Dibner, who died in 1988 at the age of ninety. Exactly the same might be said of Silvio, who died at ninety on 14 November 2007. Bedini was present at the creation of an institution and an organization central to establishing the history of technology as a scholarly discipline: the Smithsonian Ins…

  • The Bridge at Mackinac Straits

    Robert C PostARTICLETechnology and Culture2008

    The year 2008 marks the fiftieth anniversary not only of the Society for the History of Technology, but also of the five-mile suspension bridge across the straits between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan which provides highway access to Michigan's upper peninsula. The two anniversaries are linked because the designer of the bridge, David B. Steinman, became the new society's second president, hand-picked by its founder Melvin Kranzberg. As with his p…

  • Religion and Freedom of Speech

    Open AccessRobert C Post, Robert PostARTICLEConstellations2007Citada por: 24

  • Two Enthusiasts

    Robert C PostARTICLETechnology and Culture2007

    Beginning in San Francisco in 1873, cable railways spread to nearly every large American city and several overseas. Los Angeles had three systems, the most successful of which began operation on Temple Street in 1886. Frederick Wood and John Fowler, who managed the Temple Street Cable Railway, were responsible for several mechanical innovations that they hoped would be adopted by other lines. To demonstrate these, they kept a section of cable tra…

  • Democracy and Equality

    Open AccessRobert C Post, Robert PostARTICLELaw Culture and the Humanities2005Citada por: 5

    This article defines democracy as that form of government which aspires to realize the value of collective self-determination. It inquires into the relationship between democracy, so understood, and the values of equality. The article argues that although democracy intrinsically requires that persons be treated equally as self-determining agents, democracy does not require the forms of substantive equality often associated with theories of distri…

  • Henry Kaiser, Troy Ruttman, and Madman Muntz

    Robert C PostARTICLETechnology and Culture2005

    Henry Kaiser, Troy Ruttman, and Madman Muntz:Three Originals Robert C. Post (bio) Two of the men mentioned above appear in the photograph on the cover of this issue. Henry J. Kaiser does not, just his namesake automobile manufactured at his plant near Ypsilanti, Michigan. Of the three, however, only Kaiser's has remained a name to be reckoned with in American history: the entrepreneur behind Hoover, Bonneville, and Grand Coulee dams; builder of a…

  • A Narrative for Our Time

    Robert C PostARTICLETechnology and Culture2004Citada por: 1

    For a little while in the fall of 2003, during the run-up to the centennial of flight on 17 December and the opening of the National Air and Space Museum's satellite in Virginia, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, historians whose names have often graced the pages of Technology and Culture began to turn up with unusual regularity on television and radio and in the popular press: among others, Roger Bilstein, Robert van der Linden, Richard Hallion, …

  • Prejudicial Appearances

    Cynthia Fuchs Epstein, Robert C Post et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…2003

  • The Last Steam Railroad in America

    Robert C PostARTICLETechnology and Culture2003

    September 11 didn't change everything, but it changed a lot. Consider, for example, what it changed for those of us who take pictures of the built environment. No matter how fatuous yellow and orange alerts may seem, photographing bridges, mills, or railroads can look suspicious, and it will often attract the attention of the authorities. Now, for most historians, cameras are only a hobby. But not always. Take John Stilgoe, author of the prizewin…

  • Civil Society and Government

    Open AccessNancy L Rosenblum, Robert C PostBOOKCivil Society and Government2002

    Civil Society and Government brings together an unprecedented array of political, ethical, and religious perspectives to shed light on the complex and much-debated relationship between civil society and the state. Some argue that civil society is a bulwark against government; others see it as an indispensable support for government. Civil society has been portrayed both as a independent of the state and as dependent upon it. This book reveals the…