Ramesh Ponnuru and Jonathan Last for Head Guys. Of anything.
It would probably be impolite to point readers to the November issue of First Things, which features a long and typically brilliant Antonin Scalia essay on "The Language of Law," which is a review of Steven D. Smith’s book, Law’s Quandary. No vapid abstractions here. (And I’ll bet Scalia even read the whole book, which is about both policy and philosophy! How does he do it?)
….In addition to being a wonderful essay, Scalia’s piece is a rebuke to the religiosity and anti-intellectualism of the last two weeks. Those who voted for George W. Bush were promised a mind like Scalia’s for the Supreme Court. Instead, they’ve been given a mind like George W. Bush’s.
I have many thoughts on the whole "elitist" conversation of recent weeks, which I will try to post later this afternoon in this space.
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