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As so often happens with this court, the case at hand became the occasion for a clash of worldviews. (For Justices Anthony Kennedy and John Paul Stevens, the dueling authors of the main opinions, these clashes have become so predictable and so dramatized, they should think about starting a cable...
In dissenting, Stevens and his liberal allies displayed a competing worldview. For them, government is a force that ameliorates and repairs flaws in society - in this case, the corrosive effect of wealth on open democracy. The 90-page dissent spoke admiringly of the many years of debate and the 100...
The high court has issued powerfully pro-gay-rights decisions at key points in the past 20 years - including striking down criminal statutes forbidding gay sex six years ago. But it has never voiced a word of enthusiasm for gay marriage. That has left scholars and longtime legal veterans of...
Still, even if I hadn't changed, I did not expect to feel that I could happily go back to hanging out with these people. After high school, I was able to seek out friends who had similar interests and ambitions instead of those who happened to live a bikeable...
The 150 or so people inside - about a third of my graduating class - were not a random sample of J.P. Stevens High School students. There were almost no Asian kids, black kids, burnout kids or even-nerdier-than-me kids. No, these were solely the kids who went to keg...