If 12 percent of the population of the United States is black, then 12 Percent of the professors at the Harvard Law School shoulcl be black, and half of those blacks should be women, and so it is a scandal that there are no black women on the Harvard Law School faculty. The example is not chosen at random. The post modern left is well ensconced in American universities, and even has a foothold in the law schools, where professors of critical race theory, such as Derrick Bell, Kimberle Crenshaw, Jerome Culp, Richard Delgado, Alex Johnson, Mari Matsuda and Patricia Williams, hold forth.
Every intellectual movement has a lunatic fringe.
Radical legal egalitarianism is distinguished by having a rational fringe and a lunatic core. The fringe consists of the postmodernist thinkers, such as Michel Foucault and Stanley Fish, who created the intellectual framework within which the radical legal egalitarians operate, and of the ablest legal radicals, such as Duncan Kennedy and Catharine MacKinnon. The scholars of the rational fringe are rational mainly by contrast to the core. They have plenty of goofy ideas and irresponsible dicta. With it, we reject male criteria for verification.