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                                       January 20, 2010
                                       February 9, 2010   

Perhaps "Steve" of "Stevereads" is on to something:

    "...you would need to spend a lot of time
    rebutting all the individual mistakes in his
    books; you couldn't dispense with the whole
    work in one lump. Which is why I often think
    that Posner is a decoy for liberals to aim
    at. He draws so much fire that you're left
    with little ammunition for anyone else."

    "Characterizing him as a conservative _agent
    provocateur_ is unfair to Posner,
    though. Above all else, I want to be fair to          Here, I fear
    him in this review, because he is deeply              Steve goes astray.
    unfair to his enemies, often gratuitously so."
                                                          TRAITORS_OF_INTELLECT
       Richard Posner,
       "Public Intellectuals: A Study of Decline"
       Sunday, June 28th, 2009
       [ref]



Another Posner watcher who
can't help himself:

    Alan Vanneman
    "Richard Posner fools me again", May 18, 2009
     [ref]

    "... I would not take anything
    Judge Posner wrote at face value,
    since he’s frequently asserted that
    important people like himself have
    not simply the right but the duty
    to mislead the public."



And still another:

    Harold Meyerson
    "22 Percent And Out Of Ideas"
    Friday, May 22, 2009
    [ref]

    "His writing, like that of other conservative
    intellectuals such as the New York Times'
    David Brooks, has a kind of Emily Litella
    'never mind' quality to it now: repudiating
    many of the conservative verities that they
    themselves advanced over the past several
    decades while refraining from actually
    embracing the kinds of remedies that the            The Obama admin
    Obama administration is advancing."                 is advancing
                                                        remedies?  What
                                                        would those be?



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