Justice Antonin Scalia’s death was a blow. Like so many others, I depended upon Scalia to speak up for me. He did so clearly, forcefully, and with wit. That counted for a lot, especially in recent years. History is against us, we’re told. We’re the mean-spirited judges, the Pharisaical scolds—the haters. Scalia took bullets for us. He had our backs. As Hadley Arkes observed in his moving remembrance at firstthings.com, “He had been in his own way the protector of us all.”

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