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Article: The most new thing in the Novus Ordo Seclorum.
- Article from:
- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- August 1, 1998
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Since I do not assume that all our readers are also readers of the Weekly Standard, herewith an expanded version of a review that appeared in that esteemed publication. (No, Jody Bottum, who used to be our associate editor and is now the books and culture editor of the Standard, did not have the temerity to cut his former boss' copy. It is simply that I say some things here that seem more appropriate for this forum.)
John T. Noonan, Jr. is without doubt one of the most distinguished minds in our federal judiciary. Before being appointed to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in 1986, he was professor at Boalt School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, ...