Top Highlights

• it has become ever more difficult in American society to tether judge-proclaimed law to its revered moorings.
• The greatest hypocrite in the law, then, is the judge who values the appearance of virtue more than its actuality.
• Hypocrisy seems especially immoral when associated with judging, which should be aligned with justice.
• Our aim, however, is not to praise the deeds of demons, but rather to highlight the virtues of realism—
• That raw realism is acutely mindful of the necessity of deception2