On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Tom Walker <[email protected]> wrote:

> I liked the Posner article because it confirmed my bias, which is
> precisely why a Scalia fan wouldn't like it. My bias is based on the
> suggestion in much political philosophy of the usefulness to the statesman,
> prince, legislator or courtier (or judge?) of duplicity (Machiavelli,
> Castiglione, Gracian... more recently Leo Strauss). And let's not forget
> Adam Smith
>


Indeed and I'd also point out that there is a meta aspect to this: Shemano
(and Scalia) are/were employing precisely this kind of duplicity in making
the argument for textualism as a coherent and objective legal theory.
-raghu.
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