Our problem has been, and is most acutely now, the tyrannical tendency of ideas and the suicidal emptiness of politics without ideas. — Alexander Bickel, The Morality of Consent (1975)
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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito reflects on his education and the influence of Yale law professor Alexander Bickel.