THOUGHTS ON DAVID BERNSTEIN’S REHABILITATING LOCHNER: DEFENDING INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS AGAINST PROGRESSIVE REFORM, from Scott Gerber and from Jerry Pournelle.

Gerber writes: “I give Bernstein’s book the highest compliment one scholar can pay to the work of another: I learned a lot from reading it. Indeed, after finishing Bernstein’s book I will no longer think of Lochner the way I used to — as the apogee of the Supreme Court’s activist defense of the capital class — and I will certainly teach the case differently than I have in the past. Rehabilitating Lochner is intellectual history in its highest form. ”

And here’s my review in Commentary, which was the springboard for Pournelle’s thoughts.

Also, if you missed them before, my thoughts on constitutional reform of the sort that Pournelle thinks we need.