Marv's linking the Posner review of one of Scalia's books is priceless -- I urge people to read Posner's evisceration of Scalia's reasoning. I especially think David Shemano ought to read it since he believes Scalia is a consistent (mostly consistent) intellectual giant rather than a politically motivated enabler of the powerful ....
Remember that Posner is in many ways a right-winger. He virtually created the field of Law and Economics which defends the outcomes of the market system no matter how immoral the results --- If he hadn't been a Marxist in his youth (his mother was a communist --- in fact my family and his family were friends when I was a teenager) he would have certainly been a Reagan appointee to the Supreme Court ....
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