THE STANDARD READER
The Standard Reader Books in Brief The Votes That Counted: How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election, by Howard Gillman (University of Chicago Press, 280 pp., $27.50). There is no...
...As a counterpart to the Times, New York has its Post, America’s oldest continuously published daily newspaper (and our NewsCorporation stablemate), to embody the city’s pugnacious spirit...
...But the books keep coming...
...Terry Eastland The Post’s New York, compiled by Antonia Felix and the editors of the New York Post (HarperResource, 260 pp., $18...
...Read, in a forthcoming issue of the Cardozo Law Review, “The Unbearable Rightness of Bush v. Gore” by Nelson Lund, professor of law at George Mason University...
...Nadon both shows the charms of a life led in Cyrus’ way and makes a powerful, Xenophontic case for that life’s inability to meet the highest interests of man...
...The only major work of Xenophon of which Strauss did not publish an interpretation was The Education of Cyrus...
...But like, for example, Alan Dershowitz’s Supreme Injustice, it condemns the majority’s decision as an indefensible act of political partisanship...
...Among the recent crop is Howard Gillman’s The Votes That Counted...
...It’s a shame we have so many one-newspaper towns...
...These two volumes, by students of students of Strauss, help supply that defect...
...Berkowitz and Wittes don’t pass judgment on the ultimate correctness of the Court’s decision...
...This colorful volume takes us through 200 years of Post history, from its birth as the brainchild of Alexander Hamilton to the guilty pleasures that keep readers coming back for more: the gossip and, of course, the headlines, including everyone’s favorite, 1983’s HEADLESS BODY IN TOPLESS BAR...
...THE WEEKLY STANDARD has already reviewed 11 of them in essays by Noemie Emery and David Tell, and we had hoped to escape any more...
...Lund contends that the Supreme Court was “faced with a gross violation of law by a subordinate court” and “did exactly what an appellate court is supposed to do” in such a case—reverse the lower court and uphold the law...
...Lee Bockhorn The Education of Cyrus, by Xenophon, translated by Wayne Ambler (Cornell University Press, 304 pp., $19.95...
...It is, as the title suggests, less heated than others on the topic...
...There is no shortage of books on the case of Bush v. Gore...
...For a cogent assessment of the professoriate, one needs to read not a book but an article...
...That, of course, is the dominant view of the law professoriate...
...Their burden is to argue that “the charge that the decision is indefensible is itself indefensible...
...The complaint that the decision amounted to gross politicking “may apply with more obvious justice to the accusers themselves than to the Court...
...Perhaps no scholarly achievement was more characteristic of the work of Leo Strauss than his rediscovery of Xenophon as a philosopher who deserved to be spoken of in the same company as Plato, Maimonides, and Machiavelli...
...Wayne Ambler’s elegant translation deserves to become the standard English version of this work, which is the classic “mirror of princes...
...American cities are big, beautiful, messy beasts, and it’s asking too much for one paper to capture the entire essence of any of them...
...Steve Lenzner...
...In “The Professors and Bush v. Gore,” in the fall issue of the Wilson Quarterly, Peter Berkowitz and Benjamin Wittes focus on the views of three of the nation’s most eminent constitutional theorists—Bruce Ackerman, Cass Sunstein, and Ronald Dworkin—and show that each has made flamboyant assertions supported not by evidence and argument but by his own authority...
...And Christopher Nadon’s study is by far the best guide one can find to The Education of Cyrus...
...Xenophon’s Prince: Republic and Empire in the Cyropaedia, by Christopher Nadon (University of California Press, 198 pp., $38...
...Fortunately, New York doesn’t have this problem...
...So is there anyone willing to say that the decision is not merely defensible but correct...
...Along the way, the book offers a fascinating look at the changes and continuities of the Post and the city it chronicles...
...Actually, yes...
Vol. 7 • January 2002 • No. 19
