<HTML>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 -- </HTML>