In today’s Wall Street Journal, Jess Bravin writes about new works of art (loosely defined)—“a stage play, an opera, and a puppet show”—that feature fictional Justice Scalias. Bravin kindly provided me excerpts of each to review and includes my negative assessment:
If you want to understand Scalia, this is a bad place to start. If you want a good night on the town, surely you can find better options.
Reviewing my notes, I see that I found the stage play, “The Originalist,” and the puppet show, “The Complete History of Comedy (abridged),” to be inane and incompetent in their treatment of legal issues. The opera, Scalia/Ginsburg, struck me as more intelligent. (Again, I reviewed only excerpts of each.)