stay connected

FrumForum Facebook FrumForum YouTube Update Twitter FrumForum Flickr

Stories by Richard Posner

Richard Posner is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Conservatives Suffer From “intellectual Deterioration”

Richard Posner wrote on May 17th, 2009 at 8:53 am

I sense intellectual deterioration of the once-vital conservative movement in the United States. As I shall explain, this may be a testament to its success.
Until the late 1960s (when I was in my late twenties), I was barely conscious of the existence of a conservative movement. It was obscure and marginal, symbolized by figures like   more

29 Comments