Cass Sunstein says the conservative view of the Constitution requires a ‘time machine’

Anybody feel like a dinosaur?  Over at the dependable YourDaddy’s Politics blog we find a flashback within a flashback. This Cass Sunstein a few years ago (during the Alito confimration hearings I think) talking about conservatives and the Constitution:

“Some conservative legal thinkers like Justice Scalia and Justice Thomas think that the Constitution means what it originally meant.  That means we should understand the document by going into a kind of ‘Time Machine’ and capturing the public understanding of the public that ratified the document a century or more than a century ago.”

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The conservative book publishing field is getting crowded

Random House, Simon & Schuster and Penguin Group USA all have conservative book “imprints.” Now Harper Collins is jumping in according to The New York Times. Saul Bellow’s son Adam will head Broadside Books:

As Mr. Bellow imagines it, Broadside Books (“it had a certain combative edge,” he said of the title) will publish books on the culture wars, books of ideas, books of revisionist history, biographies, anthologies, polemical paperbacks and pop-culture books from a conservative point of view.

“There’s no reason why almost any publishing genre that we have can’t be approached from a conservative angle,” he said. “I hesitate to define it too narrowly. We’re on the cusp of an explosion of intellectual activity on the right, and I don’t want to limit the kind of submissions I receive.”

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