Books, Arts & Manners: Decline and Fall

Slouching towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, by Robert H. Bork (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 382 pp., $25)

PERHAPS it is time to get practical and stop lamenting the travesty Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have made of the judicial-confirmation process. True, some notable hearings on recent Supreme Court nominees have plumbed the depths of shamelessness. But look at the results. Once a jurist of conservative leanings has been thoroughly savaged by the hounds of liberalism, he seems proof against any subsequent attempts by those eminently pragmatic beasts to lick his hand and turn his head. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, or, as Housman put it so neatly, “Mithridates, he died old.”

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Slouching towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, by Robert H. Bork (ReganBooks/HarperCollins, 382 pp., $25)

PERHAPS it is time to get practical and stop lamenting the travesty Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have made of the judicial-confirmation process. True, some notable hearings on recent Supreme Court nominees have plumbed the depths of shamelessness. But look at the results. Once a jurist of conservative leanings has been thoroughly savaged by the hounds of liberalism, he seems proof against any subsequent attempts by those eminently pragmatic beasts to lick his hand and turn his head. What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger, or, as Housman put it so neatly, “Mithridates, he died old.”