Clarence Thomas and the Tough Love Crowd

Clarence Thomas and the Tough Love Crowd
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In recent years, black neoconservatism has captured the national imagination. Clarence Thomas sits on the Supreme Court. Stephen Carter's opinions on topics ranging from religion to the confirmation process are widely quoted. The New Republic has written that black neoconservative Thomas Sowell was having a greater influence on the discussion of matters of race and ethnicity than any other writer of the past ten years. In this compelling and vividly argued book, Ronald Roberts reveals how this attention has turned an eccentricity into a movement. Black neoconservatives, Roberts believes, have no real constituency but, as was the case with Clarence Thomas, are held up—and proclaim themselves—as simply and ruthlessly honest, as above mere self-interest and crude political loyalties. They profess a concern for those they criticize, claiming to possess an objective truth which sets them apart from their critics in the establishment Left. They claim to be outsiders even while sustained by the culture's most powerful institutions. As they level attacks at the activist organizations they perceive as moribund, every significant argument they advance rests on fervent mantras of harsh truths and simple realities. Enlisting the ideal of impartiality as a partisan weapon, this Tough Love Crowd has elevated the familiar wisdom of Spare the rod and spoil the child to the arena of national politics. Turning to their own writings and proclamations, Roberts here serves up a devastating critique of such figures as Clarence Thomas, Shelby Steele, Stephen Carter, and V. S. Naipaul (Tough Love International). Clarence Thomas and the Tough Love Crowd marks the emergence of a provocative and powerful voice on our cultural and political landscape, a voice which holds those who subscribe to this polemically powerful ideology accountable for their opinions and actions.

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Ronald Suresh Roberts. Clarence Thomas and the Tough Love Crowd

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Clarence Thomas and the Tough Love Crowd

Contents

Acknowledgments

Preface: The Tough Love Crowd: Disciplined Heroes

1 Reality: The Opium of Progressives

The Atrocity of Tough Love

The Tough Love Fact Trap

Tough Professional Trafficking

Why the Toughs Need Truth

2 Julien Benda’s Constitution

Julien Benda’s Politics

The Consequences of Benda’s Ideal

The Tough Love Crowd’s Troubled Loyalty to Julien Benda

3 Tough Love Literati

4 Tough Love Economist

5 Tough Love Lawyers

Will “One Lave” Work Right Now?

Is Judas Defunct in Law?

The Slipperiness of Common Ground

Just How Clever Is Tough Love Lawyering?

Stephen Carter’s Tough Stuff

6 Is Law Like a Friar’s Roast?

Is Law School a Friar’s Roast?

People Enact Truth

7 Can We Judge Judges?

Thomas and the Rule of Law

Why Law Absolutely Must Bind Judges

Law Doesn’t Bind Judges

Why Some Lawyers Still Think Law Binds Judges

Something Funny Is Happening

A Cultural Tyrant?

A Quack Scientist?

Cognitive Quackery

Cognitive Science in Law Is Wrongheaded

A Café Crit?

The Moral Force of Law?

The Physical Constraint of Law?

A Fish out of Water?

Judges Must Justify Pain and Death

8 Justice Thomas’s Sins. How to Nail Thomas

Thomas’s Partisanship

Thomas’s Indifference to Women

Swimming with the Barracuda: Thomas’s Utopian Conservatism

A Few Humble Feet above the Maddening Crowd

Is Thomas Bound by Legal Language?

Justice Thomas’s Failed Flight from “Policymaking”

A “Lexicon of Death”

Whn’s an Old Rule New?

Thomas Choosing Cases—and Choosing Sides

Reapportionment

Unhappy Truth

Muddled Partisanship

Thomas’s Pursuit of Fair Death

The Unhappy Death of the Innocent

The Unhappy Truth of Imperfect Trials

Unhappy Prison Conditions

Civil Rights: The Unhappy Absence of Meaningful Evidence

Civil Rights: The Unhappy Absence of Real Harm

Impartiality Is Zealotry

9 Sir Vidia Naipaul’s Revolutionary Truth

Tough Love Is an International Affair

Naipaul’s Ideal of Truth as Revolution

Naipaul’s Trojan Truth

Naipaul’s Tough Stuff

What Naipaul’s Tough Stuff Does

Conclusion: What’s So Scary about Partisanship? Partisanship Is Not Censorship

Coping with Lies

Notes. Notes to Chapter 1

Notes to Chapter 2

Notes to Chapter 3

Notes to Chapter 4

Notes to Chapter 5

Notes to Chapter 6

Notes to Chapter 7

Notes to Chapter 8

Notes to Chapter 9

Notes to Conclusion

Index

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There is much to suggest that the incentives prevailing in the civic guilds (of law, literature, economics, the judiciary) are frequently opposed to progressive politics. Yet the Toughs rest content with a lethargic faith in the inherited ways. In this, many of the Toughs are political casualties of the quietly oppressive ideals of amateur humanism:

Humanism’s inability to attend to its own involvement, contrary to its expressed desires, in the concrete operations of power—in other words, its naive faith in aesthetic and moral “disinterest” as well as its refusal to recognize the “origins” of reason in power—frustrate its confessed desires for moral or ideological reform.17

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