‘That was the week that was’
When I was a little girl in the early 1960s, there was a delightful satiric show on NBC my parents loved called “That Was the Week that Was.” I later realized it was peopled with incredible talent. The writers or cast included Tom Lehrer (“Vatican Rag”), Gloria Steinem, David Frost, Calvin Trillin, Alan Alda, Mike […]
Hypocrisy, God, and the Originalism of Judge Kavanaugh
Originalism has plenty of critics, and for good reason, but rarely does an originalist judge demonstrate the hypocrisy of originalism as completely as Brett Kavanaugh did in a 2010 opinion involving atheists suing Chief Justice John Roberts over presidential inaugurations. To understand how hypocritical that opinion was, we first have to understand what it means to be an originalist.