I'd like to see a simple explanation, such as when somebody finally
revealed why Larry Tribe was once held up as a "great"
constitutional scholar: It turned out that he was the last guy to
write a text book on the subject.
You know as well as I do that there is a liberal, incestuous, love affair going on between liberals in academia and the literary world. I remember when I was a lot younger reading book reviews and other forms of literature where a particular lib would be awarded the genius label...by other liberals. When I finally realized that practically everyone in the literary world was a leftist-lib, it all made sense. That's why an idiot like Cornel West who spouts gibberish at every occasion is called a genius, and Thomas Sowell is virtually unknown to most Americans.