Damon Root on Lessons from Kelo, the Eminent Domain Case That Wiped Out a Neighborhood
“The latest issue of The Weekly Standard describes the Supreme Court’s 2005 eminent domain ruling in Kelo v. City of New London as “a tragedy with all the classical Greek elements: hubris, turn of fortune, cathartic downfall, and possibly the ‘learning through suffering’ that Aristotle in his Poetics argued was the point of tragic drama.””
Root, Damon. Reason.com 6 February 2014.