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Paul Campos

A native of Colorado, Paul Campos practiced law in Chicago before returning to his home state in 1990 to join the law faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has written extensively on the role of law in American society. His most recent book is The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession with Weight is Hazardous to Your Health. Since March of 1999 he has written a weekly column for the Rocky.

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CAMPOS: Fight food fascists' effrontery

November 19, 2008

Last week I gave a talk before the Boulder Ensemble Theatre's production of Neil LaBute's play Fat Pig. The play revolves around a workplace romance between a conventionally attractive (read: slim) man and a fat woman.

CAMPOS: A writer's painful secret

November 11, 2008

About 10 years ago, I read a remarkable essay about an obscure tennis player named Michael Joyce. Joyce, a Californian who at his professional peak was ranked just inside the world's top 100 players, was attempting to qualify for the main draw of a big tournament in Montreal, and the author of the essay, David Foster Wallace, chronicled the attempt.

CAMPOS: A little more like home

November 5, 2008

Summer 1990: I'm looking something up in the Harvard Law Review, and I notice the name of the president on the issue's masthead: Barack Obama. My first thought (I'm white, by the way): A black guy is president of the Harvard Law Review. My second thought: He's got one of those "radical" names politicized people gave their kids in the 1960s. My third thought: I wonder if this is an affirmative action thing?

CAMPOS: Jumping through hoops

October 29, 2008

A man I know has been doing a lot of flying lately while, among other things, conducting a more than normally problematic love affair. His agitated mental state has made him particularly prone to noticing and being annoyed by the absurdities of what has been labeled "security theater."

CAMPOS: Wealth on move - to the rich

October 21, 2008

Aridiculous idea that has become a standard part of political talk in America is that politicians shouldn't "redistribute wealth." For example, last weekend John McCain went on Fox News and criticized Barack Obama for wanting to, in McCain's words, "spread the wealth around."

CAMPOS: Unhinged on the right

October 15, 2008

In November 1964, the historian Richard Hofstadter published, in Harper's magazine, what would become a famous essay on American some disturbing tendencies in American political life. "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" traced the history of what Hofstadter described as "the sense of heated exaggeration, suspiciousness and conspiratorial fantasy" that, at different points in America's past, has characterized panics over the Illuminati, Masons, Jesuits, Catholic immigrants and communist

CAMPOS: McCain's extremist

October 8, 2008

'I'm not going back to Woodstock for awhile," Canadian hippie rock star Neil Young sang no less than 35 years ago now. "I'm a million miles away from that helicopter day."

CAMPOS: Out-of-control populism

October 1, 2008

The parody "rockumentary" This Is Spinal Tap features a scene in which a fictional rock band's manager defends a particularly idiotic decision by pointing out that he was merely following the instructions of Nigel Tufnel, the band's profoundly clueless lead guitarist.

CAMPOS: The Lions of commerce

September 24, 2008

When it comes to sports teams, I've always been cursed with a severe case of monogamy. For example, even though I've lived in the Denver area for nearly two decades now, and one of the NFL's best-run and most successful franchises is just around the corner, I'm stuck rooting for the team of my childhood affections, the indescribably awful Detroit Lions.

CAMPOS: Whose tax plan is really best?

September 17, 2008

In what may end up being a particularly unfortunate example of poor timing, Donald Luskin, an economic adviser to John McCain, wrote an article in Monday's Washington Post arguing that, as his candidate avowed recently, the U.S. economy is fundamentally sound.


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