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>Well I'm woking in legal theory and international law
>(as well in political theory and econ) and I'd say
>that Scalia and Posner are nothing to write home
>about. If they were on the left, no one would even
>take notice. The internal inconsistancies in each are
>astonishing. In particular, Posner's economic views
>are simplistic and I wont even go into his pathetic
>"Public Intellectuals" foray in publishing.
>The left has real problems but producing intellectuals
>of that calibre is just not one of them.
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What can I say? I'm a legal theorist myself, and I think that Posner's about as good as they get. The Public Intellectuals book is an embarassment, but try, for example: Law and Literature, The Problems of Jurispridence, Frobtiers of Legal Theory, Overcoming Law . . . . Moreover, he's an excellent judge. Scalia is more slight as a theorist, which isn't saying that much, almost everyone is, but his opinions are always smart and interesting. As for inconsistencies, well, I'vbe committed a few myself. And as for the left, I wasn't making any invidious comparisons. Chuck was saying that all right wingers in govt were mediocre idiots. I listed a few I thought were pretty smart.
jks
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