Tushnet is one of the most accomplished constitutional scholars of our period. He combines a commitment to utter honesty with a voracious intellect and an indefatigable pen. Surely, if there is anyone capable of overcoming the customary assumptions of explanation that are so much a part of our contemporary intellectual life, it is he. When he comes to believe that the unquestioned aspects of our lives are not the petty stylistics of class, but are the profound tyrannies of unreflectively ascribing psychological dynamics to other people, I should not be surprised if his iconoclasm turns to attack the very shibboleth that currently casts a shadow on his work.

QUESTION: Curious what the "shibboleth casting a shadow" on Tushnet's work is — the author leaves it unnamed.

Philip Chase Bobbitt, Philip Chase Bobbitt - Refl…, loc. 667