This is thinking in public, a program dedicated to intelligent conversation about frontline

theological and cultural issues with the people who are shaping them.

I'm Albert Mowler, your host and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

in Louisville, Kentucky.

Two seldom people think, and even more rarely do they think again.

That's what makes the conversation today

with Professor Stanley Fish all the more interesting.

Stanley Fish is an intellectual force of energy.

He's one of the most interesting people

in the American intellectual scene.

He has held

posts teaching literature and law in major American universities he's the

author of many works including is there a text in this class the authority

of interpretive communities, the problem with

principle, save the world on your own time, how to write a sentence, and most recently

the book that occasions this conversation. Think again contrarian reflections on life, culture, politics, religion, law, and education.

Dr. Fish, I really enjoyed our conversation almost now five years ago,

and in terms of your new book entitled

Think Again contrarian reflections on life culture politics religion law and education it

appears that in the last five years there are few things about which you have not

thought and written. Well things catch your attention this is an exciting time to be alive.

Well you wrote most of these pieces for the New York Times and many of them attracted a great

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