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Note: This review, as with all content I write on this site, is my opinion. It does not reflect the opinion of others, including the American Knife and Tool Institute (AKTI), the cutlery trade group that I advise on legal matters. In grad school I attended a debate between Stanley Fish and Alasdair McIntyre. McIntyre was serious, well-spoken, and had a proper British accent. He was exactly the kind of person you would expect to debate something on Boston College’s campus. Stanley Fish, a noted postmodern thinker with a reputation of being a chaos gremlin intellectually and on college campuses, was none of those things. Fish, however, exuded charisma. His comments were incideniary and his retorts were the verbal equivalent of Will Ospreay’s Hidden Blade. And while I have more of an intellectual affinity for McIntyre, Fish was the person I remember most. In fact, I can’t remember a single thing McIntyre said but even now, 25 years later, I remember a half dozen quotes from Fish. My…

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