Table of Contents
Foreword Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ix
Introduction Christopher J. Scalia 1
On the American People And Ethnicity 13
What Makes an American 15
Italian View of the Irish 19
Only in America 25
American Values and European Values 29
On Living And Learning 41
The Arts 43
Games and Sports 52
Writing Well 57
Turkey Hunting 61
Civic Education 64
College Education 76
Legal Education 84
The Legal Profession 89
Platitudes and Wisdom 97
On Faith 105
The Christian as Cretin 107
Being Different 117
Catholic Higher Education 124
Church and State 134
Religious Retreats 144
Faith and Judging 148
On Law 155
The Idea of the Constitution 157
The Vocation of a Judge 169
Original Meaning 180
Interpreting the Constitution 188
The Freedom of Speech 201
Congressional Power 213
The Crisis in Judicial Appointments 223
Legislative History 234
Natural Law 243
Foreign Law 250
Judges as Mullahs 260
Dissents 271
Legal Canards 291
On Virtue And The Public Good 305
Courage 307
Tradition 318
Character 326
Right and Left 333
The Holocaust 342
On Heroes And Friends 347
George Washington 349
Abraham Lincoln 358
William Howard Taft 370
Ruth Bader Ginsburg 376
Farewells 379
Italo H. Ablondi 379
Richard Conway Casey 382
Martin Feinstein 385
Robert H. Joost 387
Mary C. Lawton 389
Morris I. Leibman 393
Emerson G. Spies 397
Acknowledgments 401
Index of Speeches 403
Index 406