So, what are you reading now?

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The Quartet, by Joseph J. Ellis. A discussion of the efforts involved in and odds against enacting the US Constitution.

Ellis has quickly become one of my favorite authors. He has a novelist's style and a scholar's approach to history. In the past year, I have read his biographies of Washington and Jefferson, as well as Founding Brothers, and American Dialogue, the Founders and Us. American Dialogue is, I believe, his most recent. He looks as current issues, such as racism, income inequality, and international relations in light of the issues faced and the ideas advanced by the Founding Fathers. He has an especially cogent criticism of the intellectual dishonesty of the originalist theory of law espoused by Scalia and his ilk.