The Funniest Thing I Heard Today

Richard Epstein is spending a few weeks at NYU before his classes begin at Chicago (a school on the quarter system). Today he talked about his newest book, How Progressives Rewrote the Constitution.

He told a story about how, during Justice Clarence Thomas's Senate confirmation hearing, Senator Joe Biden held up Epstein's book on government takings and proclaimed that anyone who shared the philosophy of the book was unfit to serve on the Court. Epstein said he loved the press he was getting, but it stopped abruptly after about an hour, when the Anita Hill accusations surfaced.

"Sex beats law every time," Epstein said. "But I still prefer to talk about law because that's where my relative expertise lies."