Carson Holloway “wonders if Mr. Clements appreciated the irony” of my lecture “Corporations Are Not People” at Dartmouth College (“Two Centuries of Corporate Personhood,” op-ed, Feb. 1). There is no irony; my subject then concerned exactly the kind of specious argument that Mr. Holloway makes now. Seeking to backstop sloppy “corporate personhood” metaphors used in Supreme Court decisions such as the 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Mr. Holloway distorts the 1819 Dartmouth College v. Woodward decision.

Source: Wall Street Journal February 10, 2019 19:30 UTC