The traditional—or at least doctrinaire—response of conservatives and libertarians to the phenomenon of income inequality has been, “So what?” The common attitude of many on the Right is that, in a free-market economy, individual differences in ability, skill, and effort will lead to ineq…
Month: April 2016
Unfit for Pedagogy?
A cartoonish leftist tract masquerades as legal scholarship. The leadership of Chief Justice John Roberts has disappointed many conservatives, especially his strained opinions upholding Obamacare, in NFIB v. Sebelius (2012) and King v. Burwell (2015). Presidential candidate Senator Ted Cruz (R., …
Misfiring on the Roberts Court
Stephen E. Gottlieb purports to criticize Chief Justice John Roberts’ leadership of the Supreme Court for failing faithfully to interpret the Constitution to protect democracy. What Unfit for Democracy: The Roberts Court and the Breakdown of American Politics really shows is that Gottlieb, a la…