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Bork Bites Back |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Robert Royal |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1997 |
| Size: 2,485 Words, 15,746 Characters |
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SLOUCHING TOWARDS GOMORRAH
Modern Liberalism and American Decline
Robert H. Bork
New York: ReganBooks, 1996
382 pp., $25.00
No one has ever accused former Yale professor and federal judge Robert H. Bork of being a wallflower on matters concerning the law. In fact, the "Borking" of such a distinguished scholar by the Senate Judiciary Committee during his confirmation hearings as a candidate for the Supreme Court only makes sense as a desperate attempt to find some reason, however irrational, to limit the influence of his powerful, civilized mind. In their perverse way, Bork's ideological enemies were right to think he would pose formidable challenges on a variety of fronts to the status quo. With the publication of Slouching towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism an...
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...val, a renewal of public moral discourse, war, or an economic depression seem likely to make us rethink our course. We cannot desire the latter two factors. Our only hope is that our churches and elites find a confidence and vigor they have almost been entirely lacking in recent decades. The harvest is great, the laborers few, and the hour late. But stranger things have happened in history. vbcrlf
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