Professor Levine's book is a defense of all that Professor Bloom held unholy.

Professor Levine, on the other hand, champions multiculturalism, which he sees as the inevitable, and praiseworthy, product of constitutional democracy.

Professor Levine is also critical of higher education.

Professor Levine's champions, however, remain optimistic.

Nor, said Professor Levine, have they developed an "ideological faith" that markets can benefit society generally.

"I got educated by a guy who had an education in street fighting," Professor Levine said of a fellow juror.

"I cannot imagine why the jury is not able to see all of this evidence," Professor Levine said.

Professor Levine compared the traditional hub-and-spoke airline industry to an iceberg drifting toward the Equator.

Even when they lent a hand, it was often with "a particularly hard edge," Professor Levine wrote.

Professor Levine refers to him as "more of a social scientist-philosopher at heart than a lawyer, albeit an astute legal analyst."