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Beyond All Reason TThhiiss ppaaggee iinntteennttiioonnaallllyy lleefftt bbllaannkk This page intentionally left blank Beyond All Reason The Radical Assault on Truth in American Law Daniel A. Farber Suzanna Sherry New York Oxford Oxford University Press 1997 Oxford University Press Oxford New York Athens Auckland Bangkok Bogota Bombay Buenos Aires Calcutta Cape Town Dar es Salaam Delhi Florence Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kuala Lumpur Madras Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Nairobi Paris Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Warsaw and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Copyright © 1997 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc., 198 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016 Oxford is a registered trademark of Oxford University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Oxford University Press. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Farber, Daniel A., 1950- Beyond all reason : the radical assault on truth in American law / by Daniel A. Farber, Suzanna Sherry. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-19-510717-9 1. Critical legal studies. 2. Discrimination. 3. Merit (Ethics) 4. Muluculturalism. I. Sherry, Suzanna. II. Title. K370.F37 1997 97-20369 340'.112—dc21 98765432 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper To the memory of my grandparents, Harry and Mary Shugan D. A. F. To the memory of my grandmother Pearl Andelson Sherry 1899-1996 S. S. TThhiiss ppaaggee iinntteennttiioonnaallllyy lleefftt bbllaannkk This page intentionally left blank Contents Introduction, 3 1 Radical Multiculturalism and Its Discontents, 15 2 Transforming the Law, 34 3 Is the Critique of Merit Anti-Semitic? 52 4 Distorting Public Discourse, 72 5 The Assault on Truth and Memory, 95 6 Anatomy of an Ideology, 118 Conclusion, 138 Acknowledgments, 145 Notes, 149 Index, 187 TThhiiss ppaaggee iinntteennttiioonnaallllyy lleefftt bbllaannkk This page intentionally left blank Beyond All Reason

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