Beyond the Law

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Raymond Aron, the French philosopher, once said that democracy's problem is that democratic regimes tend to undermine themselves unless they can overcome extremism. So the first duty of a democrat is to protect the democratic turf from being poisoned by extremism. To do that we must pay heed to extremists, located for the most part in our universities, especially in the law schools, and examine what it is they are preaching.

For some years now, law schools have been home to a form of sectarianism known as "Critical Legal Studies." The focus of this Marxist-inspired dogma is that the rule of law by which democracies live is really a bourgeois sham so structured as to …