Judges and Judiciary,
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Dec. 3, 2016
A flawed account of a towering jurist
Posner's first biographer, William Domnarski, deserves some applause for completing the precursory but epic task of reading everything Posner has written.
David Hume upset more than his share of applecarts. His six-volume history of England spared a kind word for the beheaded Charles I and questioned the supposedly ancient roots of the Englishman's liberty. His history was seen as a reactionary attack on prevailing liberal pieties (Thomas Jefferson called it "poison"). As a historian, however, Hume was only an accidental traditionalist. He was first a skeptic. He claimed that causation is something of an illusion; that a person's sense of se...
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