Richard A. Posner is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for theSeventh Circuit and a senior lecturer at the University of ChicagoLaw School.

The Judge in a Democracy By Aharon Barak

(Princeton University Press, 332 pp., $29.95)

Messianism, Zionism, and Jewish Religious Radicalism

By Aviezer Ravitzky. Translated by Michael Swirsky and Jonathan Chipman

(University of Chicago Press, 303 pp., $17.95)