Whose Fictions? Which Authority

July 28th, 2025 | 24 min read

Steven D. Smith. Fiction, Lies, and the Authority of Law. South Bend: University of Notre Dame Press, 2021. $48, 290pp.

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John Ehrett

John Ehrett is a Commonwealth Fellow, and an attorney and writer in Washington D.C. His work has appeared in American Affairs, The New Atlantis, and the Claremont Review of Books. He is a graduate of Patrick Henry College, the Institute of Lutheran Theology, and Yale Law School.

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