Cass Sunstein

[LeoCasey at aol.com]

I would like to second Justin's recommendation that Cass Sunstein is a very 
good read. IMHO, he is probably the most interesting contemporary academic 
writing at the juncture of political philosophy and the law. My particular 
favorite is _Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech_, which does a very 
good job of challenging the 'free market' philosophy of free speech, and of 
articulating an alternative vision of how one might ground free speech in 
democratic governance. But a major stream of his thought in his work has been 
critiques of 'free' market fetishism in the law, so I would be surprised if 
he thought that he would get a seat on the federal bench under Gore; he runs 
against the grain of DLC dogma as much as against Repug philosophy. I would 
have expected more socially liberal, economically moderate types from a Gore. 

Leo Casey
United Federation of Teachers
260 Park Avenue South
New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)

Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never has, and it never will.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who 
want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and 
lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
-- Frederick Douglass --

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