I’d been meaning to pick up a copy of her Freethinkers. . . until I read her article in The American Prospect about the Supreme Court. Garbage, from beginning to end. She misrepresents Justice Scalia in a way that even Laurence Tribe has condemned. She maintains that Bill Pryor, as Alabama’s attorney general, “was distinguished by his unremitting support for Judge Roy Moore’s installation of a 2-ton Ten Commandments monument in the state courthouse.” Qualified support would have been a more accurate comment: Pryor took a lot of flak from Moore’s supporters when he argued that Moore had to obey a federal court order to stand down. Leon Holmes is castigated for thinking that “Christianity transcends the political order” and that the end of time will see a Kingdom of God. Jacoby flings around terms like “fanaticism” and “archconservative”–flings them around so often that you begin to see how the terms function as a crutch for her intellect–but it’s quite clear that she has been blinded by her own extremism, which seems more unthinking than freethinking.