[lbo-talk] Tigar v. Posner

[Chuck Grimes]

While I was reading Jim Straub's great article in the Monthly Review,
I came across another article that I think the legal beagles here on
LBO would definitely be interested in. It is Michael Tigar's lecture
on what's wrong with Judge Posner. I would strongly recommend it to
Andie N and would very much like to hear his response.

Andie N knew Posner. I knew Tigar, from an extreme distance, as a
friend of a friend I did know close up at UCB just after the Free
Speech Movement. BTW, Tigar's father was a machinist and Tigar was
student body president of one of my high schools, and graduated before
I arrived. Tigar was denied a clerkship under Douglas, on rumors he
was communist, and worked on the defence team for Terry Nicols in the
Oklahoma City bombing. 

Reading Tigar today, I could hear the sound of that old time religion
preached at UCB back in the day. 

I also think if anybody bothers to read the two posts on Strauss, and
then read the Tigar article, you will hear the great debate in a
multiple way. Me in much less eloquant ways against Strauss, Tigar in
command of the word against Posner. 

Thinking on it, I have to wonder if Posner might be an affectionado of
Strauss or a related political philosopher...

Here is Tigar:

http://monthlyreview.org/0506tigar.htm