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​Some Correspondence With an Atheist

Albert W. Alschuler

Seated next to me at dinner was a man about my age. Like me, he’d retired to Maine. We hit it off, and after our dinner, we began an...

A Century of Skepticism

Albert W. Alschuler

The left and the right in American legal thought are more alike than different. They are united in their skepticism, especially their skepticism concerning values. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes...