signaling not just the demise of utopia, but the demise of even the idea of the possibility of utopia.

Off we go down the mole hole of a mole hill and that irreducible hobgoblin: originalism, that ghost in the machine that says the only way to interpret what was meant with what was founded and set years after we exclaimed that these laws we hold to be self evident are not really so self evident. Hence structure, hence the first amendment which was originally not the first but it makes for such better story. Give me good story and I’m yours forever.

But a theory beats no theory and the textualists are so overcommitted that it’s not even funny, not funny haha but funny kiss your sister and be a whirling dervish at the offering plate.