Sometimes it’s the little things that make big issues snap into focus. Any sentient adult, beholding the spectacle of the increasingly imperious American judiciary, has cause to worry. Where will the usurpation of the democratic process stop? Robert H. Bork has done heroic work exposing the way politically correct, academic leftism has transformed the American judiciary from an institution whose aim is to uphold and apply the law into an institution whose aim is to make the law. In many essays (including essays for The New Criterion) as well as in The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law (1997) and Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges (2003), Judge Bork has provided an eloquent if depressing portrait of a judiciary intoxicated by hubris and therefore party to what Tocqueville called democratic despotism.

Judge Bork deals with many large issue ...

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