Carl Schmitt/Bill Barr

[rich]

makes for rather depressing reading

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/01/15/william-barr-the-carl-schmitt-of-our-time/

US Attorney General William Barr’s defense of unchecked executive authority
in his recent speech to the Federalist Society had an unpleasant
familiarity for me. It took me back to a time in my life—during the late
1990s, as a graduate student in England, and the early 2000s, teaching
political theory in the politics department at Princeton University—when I
seemed to spend altogether too much time arguing over the ideas of a Nazi
legal theorist notorious as the “crown jurist” of the Third Reich.