Commentary

Justice Breyer: American Judges Should Internationalize

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, September 24 2015

Here's an odd, recurring and conspicuous contradiction. The political left ceaselessly preens its fealty to gauzy multiculturalism, ostentatiously maligning Western, European, Judeo-Christian, ODWM (Old, Dead, White Male) culture in fits of self-flagellation. Yet whenever it endeavors to uproot American norms it finds objectionable, the left just as ceaselessly selects western European cultures as superior social models that the U.S. should emulate. In his current presidential campaign, for example, Socialist Senator and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders cites Scandinavian…

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