Matter of Interpretation
- New Jersey Princeton University Press 2022
- xxiv,173p. PB 21x14cm.
Like Socrates long ago, Antonin Scalia loved to argue. As with the best Socratic dialogues of old, the book you now hold in your hand overflows with opinion—not just assertions of its provocative protagonist, but also contentions arrayed against the provocateur’s position. To his great credit, Justice Scalia invited pushback to the views he laid out in the main text of this book. Several towering scholars of his era—Gordon S. Wood, Laurence H. Tribe, Mary Ann Glendon, and Ronald Dworkin—rose to the challenge with sparkling responses that did not merely say, “Amen.” Repeatedly, these response essays also...