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The Legal Imagination and The Protestant (Dis) Establishment
Stolzenberg, Nomi Maya
Stolzenberg, Nomi Maya
Abstract
Let me begin with the contention that The Legal Imagination is a quintessentially liberal imagination—or, to borrow Trilling’s term, The Liberal Imagination. As such it is intimately related to what once was widely referred to as the Liberal Establishment, otherwise known as the Eastern or Northeast Establishment4—or, more significantly, the Protestant Establishment.5 What I propose to do here is to take seriously the Protestant dimension of the so-called Establishment and its intellectual culture that I think is reflected, with great nuance, in Jim’s remarkable book.