Public Intellectuals: A study of decline by Richard Posner, Harvard University Press, £20.50, ISBN 067400633X
A PRACTISING judge and legal academic, Richard Posner is also a prominent and prolific author who can be relied on to address the most marketable issues of the moment. Last year, in Breaking the Deadlock, he was in print justifying the Supreme Court’s decision to break the electoral deadlock in Florida and give the presidency to George Bush. Shortly before, in An Affair of State, he was supporting the impeachment of Clinton and castigating all legal scholars who opposed it.
Now Posner offers a critique…
