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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
That criticism was inane. In the last fifteen years, Elena Kagan has had three highly sought-after, prestigious, important jobs in which she has had very significant responsibilities but in which, for various reasons, she didn't leave a public paper trail of decisions and positions for people like Brooks to dissect. What's Brooks doesn't understand or is intentionally overlooking is that in two of these jobs, she was practicing law at the very highest level for demanding clients. It's just that her paper trail in the White House and as the SG isn't made public. In the third job, as the dean at HLS, she has a public record, just not one that sheds much light on what her jurisprudence would be like. Brooks might as well say Bob Woodward isn't much of a journalist because he doesn't make his sources public.
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I said, "I don't know if she is or isn't" what Brooks accuses. Did you read that?
And she isn't the point. I was merely using Brooks' article to demonstrate I'm hardly the only person alive to have noticed, "Wow, a lot of what passes for 'talent' these days is robotic obedience married to the cheapest forms of technical intelligence." If Brooks - possibly the least insightful voice in punditry - notices we're breeding corporate wastelands of wind up dolls, the problem's probably terminal.
