A washingtonpost.com article from: s-gerber@onu.edu

[Scott Gerber]

Is a unanimous opinion, with no concurring or dissenting opinions, even 
from the liberals on the Court, a "good fight"?  I don't think so, 
especially when our brave soldiers were dying on battlefield when it 
was being waged.
SDG


Miguel Schor wrote:


>       Scott: While I enjoyed the article, it is clear that George Will 
got
>it wrong.  Academics are supposed to piss off the citizenry by fighting 
the
>good fight.  Certainly Socrates was right when he argued that 
questioning
>dogma was the most important political role of a thinker.  Not that I 
would
>want to carry the analogy too far as he was put to death for his pains 
and
>he also thought it wrong for teachers to accept remuneration . . .  
Miguel
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>        Professors of Pretense
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>        By George F. Will
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>        The institutional vanity and intellectual slovenliness of 
America's
>campus-based intelligentsia have made academia more peripheral to civic 
life
>than at any time since the 19th century. On Monday its place at the
>periphery was underscored by the Supreme Court.
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Scott Gerber
Law College
Ohio Northern University
Ada, OH 45810
419-772-2219
http://www.law.onu.edu/faculty/gerber/