‘A MOOCHER AND A LOOTER’
The billionaire casts himself as a public-spirited libertarian, but when it comes to climate change, the fossil-fuel magnate has always had his thumb on the scale.
ANDREW KOPPELMAN is an award-winning John Paul Stevens Professor of Law at Northwestern University. He is the author of Burning Down the House: How Libertarian Philosophy Was Corrupted by Delusion and Greed, Gay Rights vs. Religious Liberty? and The Tough Luck Constitution and the Assault on Health Care Reform. His work has appeared in USA Today, CNN.com, The New Republic, Salon, The Chicago Tribune, and Vox. He is a regular contributor to Balkinization, a leading blog in constitutional law.