[lbo-talk] Elena Kagan, socialist

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Wed May 19 11:47:26 PDT 2010


Doug Henwood ---

On May 17, 2010, at 12:53 PM, SA wrote:


> Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>> The conclusion of Elena Kagan's Princeton undergrad thesis,
>> transcribed by Brad De Long. She was clearly some sort of leftist
>> back in 1981.
>
> I'm not sure. The acknowledgments say it was her brother's politics
> that got her interested:

Yes, but that conclusion really sounds like someone who was sympathetic, and not just a disinterested scholar.

^^^^^^^^ CB: 1981 about the same time that that Liberal Lion John Paul Stevens was helping to destroy affirmative action.



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