Richard Weisberg

“Richard Posner,” by William Domnarski

Reviewer’s short appreciation of another judicial life: Frank M. Johnson, Jr., the legendary Federal jurist from Alabama whose historic civil rights decisions led to ostracism, cross-burnings and death threats but helped to change the face of the segregationist South in the 1950’s and 1960’s, [...] cleared the way for registering black voters, outlawed poll taxes, struck down state laws barring blacks and women from jury service, expanded the right of the poor to court-appointed lawyers, and issued the first court order for legislative reapportionment in the nation’s history, anticipating the Supreme Court’s one-man one-vote rule.

A Nietzschean's Response to Hannah Johnson's Blood Libel

Abstract Hannah Johnsons article for this symposium, and her masterful book, provide a historical and psychological template for understanding the perennial obsession among certain Christian writers with the “blood libel.” My brief response to Johnson emphasizes Friedrich Nietzsches expansive aphorisms in On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) that analogously frame some Christian responses to Judaism around the phenomenon of “ressentiment.”