Some years ago, Yale Law School offered the public a chance to take Akhil Reed Amar's class on Constitutional Law for free. I figured, What am I doing anyway? And enrolled. The depth of my ignorance shocked me.

I owe him a huge debt of gratitude I've never expressed.

What we've seen over the past 20 years is that many Americans don't care much about the constitution
Some hate that it was written by slavers (true)
Others hate that it limits the power of the executive (also true)

Marcia is a great character because she has the imperious, unquestionable power of a matriarch - but she's not a matriarch and doesn't care what happens to Logan's children. She's the Virgin Queen. Random fact: I had my wedding reception in Logan's townhouse. It's the American Irish Historical Society, across the street from the Met

Rolling, Realtime Review of Spare Part IV

Okay, Meghan has moved to London before the wedding She's a pleaser, a person who wants to be liked, a hugger, generous, a "best little girl in the world" as many daughters of divorced parents can be. She likes to give elaborate, time-consuming gifts to people who seem to be in need of them

Rolling Real Time Review, "Spare," Part III

J.R. Moehringer is a stone cold genius You get the sense that he's captured Harry's inner life perfectly - yet in a way that Harry would never have been able to do for himself

Rolling, Real Time Review of "Spare"

Part II

I defy anyone to read the chapters devoted to Harry's military service and find anything dishonorable in them. They are detailed, moving, and trace a course of something it's taken me a long time in my life to understand - Which is that for some young men, military service - with its emphasis on training, physical capability, high standards of preparedness and readiness - is so transformative as to seem a profound and necessary experience for a huge number of men.

The job of a teacher is to press students on their sloppy thinking, to get them to think more deeply about their assumptions. That is - ironically- what the student did to the teacher when he asked what she would do if she was threatened w a gun.
Her argument crumbed.

https://twitter.com/JMadeline5/status/1388219085104852998

In this way, the student performed a valuable function for the teacher. She was able to think about the issue in a new and illuminating way. Would she really "not call anyone" if threatened with a gun?

Thank you to @CCamosy for reading and responding so thoughtfully to the essay. I share your interest in accurate numbers

https://twitter.com/between2worlds/status/1194298781451399168

Mary Calderone didn’t do any research. She was the secretary of the Planned Parenthood Federation and her book consists of transcripts of a conference hosted by the Federation in NYC