The last few days, I've been reminded of Lionel Trilling's rather impolite description of conservatism as a philosophy expressed in "irritable mental gestures" rather...
Conservative pundits and their mainstream-media abettors are stunned, stunned I say, at the suggestion that a judge's biography might have some sort of influence...
One of the constant refrains in articles about David Souter's retirement is that replacing him with another "liberal" will not change the "basic makeup...
