On Sunday, March 9, we will be continuing our Blogging & the New Public Intellectualseries moderated by Roger Berkowtiz & Walter Russell Mead. Our guest will be Tom Goldstein.

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The series engages an ongoing discussion with the nation's leading bloggers in politics, history, art, and culture. We ask about their experience as bloggers, what they hope to accomplish, and how they work. We'll discuss the pressures to put content up quickly, to be controversial, and to balance personal opinion with journalistic standards.

Above all, we will analyze the emergence of a new form of political and cultural writing by engaging with the best practitioners of this new and powerful medium.

Tom Goldstein is the Publisher and a regular contributor to the SCOTUSblog, which he co-founded with Amy Howe in 2002. He teaches Supreme Court litigation at Harvard Law School, and previously taught at Stanford Law School from 2004-2012. Tom has argued 28 cases before the Supreme Court. Among other recognitions, Tom has been named 1 of the 50 most influential people in Washington, D.C. (GQ); 1 of the 40 most influential lawyers of the past decade and the 100 most influential lawyers in the nation (NLJ); 1 of the 90 greatest Washington, D.C. lawyers of the past 30 years and the leading appellate lawyers in Washington (Legal Times); and 1 of the 30 best lawyers in Washington, D.C. (Washingtonian). Visit the SCOTUSblog here.

"Journalists, by and large, are not as good as they should be in keeping up with what happens after a large verdict - even though they know full well from experience that the verdict will most likely be cut dramatically. There surely is less of an attention span than there should be."

"Because they are a court that can only act through the vote of five people agreeing on something, even people who have very diverse views about the law ultimately do have to come together..."

Our previous events with Jay Rosen, Megan Garber, David Frum, Francince Prose, Amy Davidson, and Dylan Byers began to explore how the new public space, as Arendt would call it, offers opportunities and challenges. You can see video footage of these events here.

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