Identity Cultivation

The instruction to choose your battles carefully is one of the best lessons in the book of life. I haven't much to say about the Sotomayor hearing this week simply because that axiom applies. When all of the testimonial dust settles, the Senate will confirm a liberal justice to replace a retiring liberal justice. But out of these give and take hearings on the inevitable there comes the back-story. It is the how and why behind a person at the threshold of the nation's last word on the law . In this NRO article, Heather Mac Donald provides us with some background on identity politics in today's law schools and how it shapes legal theory, young minds and the testimony of Supreme Court nominees.