Scalia vs. Nabokov, Kubrick

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 31 20:20:27 PST 2001



>That kind of blows my mind. I mean this is something you'd
>expect some yahoo like, say, a TV preacher, to put out, but
>isn't Scalia supposed to be some kind of big-deal intellectual
>or something like that? Hard to believe he casually dismisses
>"Lolita" as obviously and grossly inferior, as though it belongs
>in a class distinct from and below "art", when compared for
>example to Milo's statue of a naked girl.
>

Scalia is very smart, but that doesn't mean he's an "intellectual," a widely cultivated person with a great deal of humanistic learning. Law and philosophy too are filled with smart people who are narrow technocrats. jks

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