Csaba Varga. “Legal Mentality as a Component of Law. Rationality Driven Into Anarchy in America.” Curentul Juridic, vol. 1, (2013): 63-77.
This article examines how, in backsliding democracies like the United States, the erosion of shared social values, religious cohesion, and collective normative frameworks leaves law—and by extension, lawyers—as the last remaining institution expected to uphold societal order. In such contexts, attorneys are burdened with the role of embodying rationality and certainty amid growing atomization and moral relativism. The piece critiques the mythologized self-image of lawyers as neutral experts, arguing that in the absence of broader societal consensus, their function becomes both overextended and ideologically fraught, raising urgent questions about the legitimacy and limits of legal authority in postmodern, fragmented democratic societies.