I give it most of the credit for the fact that ours isthe wealthiest, most technologically advanced, and most socially just soci-ety in human history, not to mention the fact that we have with ease be-come a military superpower .... The rest of the world is quite rightlyimpressed with us, and it is thus no accident that the United States ofAmerica has become the biggest single exporter of public law in the his-tory of humankind.
I can't help but think that parts of this attitude expressed by Calabresi is debatable not just in light of the condition of the US in the present day, but even when he made these comments in 1998. Many would certainly disagree that the US is/was the "most socially just society in human history" nor was it the case that the US "with ease [became] a military superpower."