Abstract
In The Trouble with Principle, Stanley Fish, the esteemed Milton authority, infamous legal scholar and political theorist, and now dean at the University of Illinois, Chicago, presents his collection of recent—mostly previously published—law review and political theory essays. These essays—consistently engaging, provocative, and disquieting—are devoted to his well-rehearsed commitments to anti-foundationalism and the idea that "Everything is rhetorical" (228). The development of these essays constitutes unmistakable evidence of how extraordinarily clever Fish is both at choosing (Fish admits this selectivity) the legal and political theorists who happen to exemplify the contrivances of liberalism that especially violate these themes and then manifesting his animus against them. Even Fish's harshest critics acknowledge this cleverness; astute readers, no matter how put off they may be by the substance of what Fish says, should not forbid themselves from appreciating that cleverness.
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