Abstract

Lippmann and the Court

For two weeks the author has followed anxiously the serialized account of U.S. writer Walter Lippmann's hopes and fears for the Constitution. The author had two motives for his religious pursuit. Here, the author felt, in these flowers plucked from Lippmann's corner of the "Herald Tribune" crannied wall, he should get at the secret of his whole universe. And here too he should find summed up the mature thinking of conservatives on the constitutional issue. In the first the author was not disappointed. He found everything in Lippmann's career. Something in his subject had clicked with him as never before. The author found spread out before him the entire anatomy of his mind, his easy expository tone, his dialectical skill, his genius for clarity to the point of bareness, his rhetoric which is always just on the point of becoming eloquence, his magisterial air and his talent for opening his mind to no more of his subject than for the moment he cares to admit.