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Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey, by Linda Greenhouse (Times, 288 pp., $25)
AS a theory of political morality and a practical political philosophy, liberalism is nearly exhausted. Despite decades of hegemony in academic political theory, the leading theologians of the liberal faith, including most notably the late John Rawls of Harvard, have failed to produce an intellectually plausible defense of its dogmas. In the world of public affairs, liberalism's self-proclaimed keepers of the flame--from Teddy Kennedy to Michael Moore to Al Sharpton--are shrill and ridiculous. Most Democrats and all Republicans refuse to accept the term ...