I started reading Scalia Dissents this morning. Scalia refers to himself as a "textualist." I like that. I'm going to start calling myself that.
Scalia is one of the great judicial writers, comparable, in my view, to Oliver Wendell Holmes, though less poetic.
I read Scalia because I am intensely interested in the topic, but he is also one of those writers I'd read just to enjoy the style. Others include: Loren Eiseley, H.L. Mencken, Bertrand Russell, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Annie Dillard. Michael Nozick is an absolutely brilliant philosopher. I rarely agree with these writers, but I have to admire their style. Tom Wolfe, too, is always entertaining. His book, The Painted Word, is his most insightful.
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Anton Scalia is on record saying that the United States government derives its mandate from God.
Doesn't that bother you? Our government was explicitly created to derive its power from consent the governed.
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