To be "Borked": My odd friendship with Robert Bork

And how his nomination fight was the beginning of the end of civil discourse in Washington

Did you ever admire someone whose views and opinions you disliked?

Last week’s news that the Justice Department is filing an antitrust lawsuit to break up Google’s advertising business led me to remember one such person. His name was Robert Bork. More than any single person, Bork almost killed antitrust in America.

I met Bork in 1971 when I took his cla…