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I recently started reading The Western Canon, and I'm wondering if there are any significant appropriations of Bloom's work by the intellectual left. If you can get past the thinly-veiled racism, many of the ideas he has, like the idea that people no longer want to be challenged by novels, seem quite similar to left media criticism I've read about the decline of originality in corporate-produced media. Versions of Susan Sontag's ideas in Against Interpretation also seemed to be present in The Western Canon (thinking especially of Bloom's notion of the canon as a perpetual anxiety). I know there is a lot of criticism of Bloom from the left, but I am wondering if anyone has tried to run

Note: Much of this post draws on the work of Pierre Schlag, a legal theorist. His work is available online, and I will be linking his relevant publicly available articles at the end of this post. Unlike many academics, he's really a joy to read.

Everyone reading this already knows that things are really bad, the worst they've been in a long time. Ecological destruction is accelerating, fascism is reemerging, and COVID-19 is sweeping across the world. A really common response to these bad things is talking about which laws would solve them. This post is going to take issue with the idea of using the law to prevent these problems.

When people talk about the law, they like to talk about it as

Title. Post-structuralism is really important in other fields, and because it's a linguistic theory, I'm wondering how it's viewed in linguistics.