How Much Is Enough? ask Brits Robert and Edward Skidelsky, father and son, the dad being well known as the author of a famous, three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes and the son a not as well known philosopher. How Much Is Enough? springs off an essay Keynes wrote back in the day, imagining life…
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Richard Posner fools me again
I guess that should be Richard A. Posner, because that’s how Dick likes to bill himself on his book jackets. If you read this blog assiduously, you’re probably aware that no one gets my goat quite so often as the learned judge. I never liked his snooty, know-it-all attitude, but it was his little book,…
The snark that would not die
Not if I can help it, anyway. I recently posted a comment at the New Republic, regarding an article that Martha Nussbaum had written on Roger Williams, a commented that suggested, among other things, that I hoped I would live long enough to see Martha, Richard Posner, and Justice Scalia fighting it out with socks…