Last night the Senate Judiciary Committee began posting hundreds of pages of material submitted by Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan to its Web site, starting with the 70 stories she wrote for her college paper, The Daily Princetonian.
Reading all 70 of her clips in quick succession as a prelude to the inventory of her career, it’s remarkable how clearly her passions and beliefs show through. What emerges is a portrait of an earnest liberal, concerned especially with issues of gender, equality, and identity politics.
All the greatest hits of late ’70s, early ’80s boomer liberalism are here:
* reports about students defending themselves against marijuana charges; reports about union grievances
* reports about groups striving for greater diversity in Princeton’s elite eating clubs
* reports about efforts to convince the university to withdraw its investments in apartheid South Africa
* reports about the loss of two sexual therapists from the medical center staff
* reports about energy overruns and protecting nuclear facility workers from radioactivity
* more than a dozen reports about women’s rights, from a lament about how eating club members doused an activist with beer to an flattering profile of Princeton’s unofficial “dean of women.”
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