I think that Beyond All Reason would have been an even stronger book if Farber and Sherry had not played the Jewish victim card, and if they had confined their attention entirelv to the critical race theorists, who have gotten a free ride for too long because they have wrapped themselves in the mantle of race. Still, this is a fine book, a work of intelligence and courage that will alter the terms of debate in academic law. And, oddly, it mav savc critical race theory. White scholars have largely ignored this movement. This has been no favor to it.
Criticism is the oxygen of a scholarly movement.
If it is read by them in the right spirit, Beyond All Reason may help them to reorient critical race theory in a constructive, and genuinely scholarly, direction.