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I am not sure if you folks caught this. A couple of days ago, an Op-Ed piece in the LA Times dealt with "The Subtext of the John Roberts nomination". The author, Crispin Sartwell, whom you may have read elsewhere, uses Wittgenstein and Gadamer for his analysis. I am not convinced that the word "subtext" is really what he was after, but it is good to see philosophy in a major newspaper. Also to notice: the author rightly went beyond "objectivism and relativism" of hermeneutics, by showing that Gadamer cared about context without being a skeptic or a relativist.