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"Antonin Scalia--A Justice in Full" National Review Symposium Featuring Friends of Justice Scalia
By The James Wilson Institute •
Posted on Feb 29 2016
National Review published a touching collection of anecdotes on the life and character of Justice Antonin Scalia. Among other friends, Prof. Arkes offered the following:
"It was part of Nino’s virtue and charm — and his Christian outlook — that he could find something redeeming and likeable in just about everyone he met, regardless of politics. And so we’d go to dinner at the Scalias’ and find Nina Totenberg, from NPR, along with her husband. Ms. Totenberg has put in her years in the vineyard of covering the Court, and she has cultivated the skills of a workman. But among her skills has never been the knack of concealing her contempt for conservatives.
"Whoever composed the company at table, everything would end well when Father Malcolm Kennedy, a seasoned New Yorker, took a seat at the piano. We would gather around, and then Nino and I and others would join in belting out those Broadway tunes we grew up with in the ’50s — Rodgers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, Carousel, and all the others. And one could almost believe, at the end of such an evening, that with good will, everything would come out all right."
Read the full Symposium at National Review.