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Last night, on the latest episode of The Bachelorette,
the inevitable happened: One of the contestants—lovelorn, earnest,
ready-to-drop-on-one-knee Ed—was given an opportunity to have sex with
a girl he is “crazy about” in a hotel room, tricked out with roses,
body oil, and ... a crew, cameras, and millions watching at home. He
failed to get hard. How has this not happened before? ... (Read more in Double X.)
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KJ, your fury over the New York Times Magazine essay by the high school girl slumming it as an IHOP waitress
seems to have hit a nerve: Our commenters tend to agree with you that
she’s a spoiled brat, the emblem of an entitled generation who won’t
get their hands dirty. I read the essay entirely differently ... (Read more in Double X.)
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I prefer Sotomayor’s effort to put her wise Latina point in context to
the talking points the Obama administration previously came up with ... (Read more in Double X.)
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A simple but telling little study
from the University of Brussels challenges the idea that college kids
are gobs of clay passively waiting to be molded by their professors. In
general, students of social science are more likely to graduate college
as self-defined leftists, while law and economics graduates tilt the
other way. To find out why, sociologists gave various cohorts of
university students surveys when they entered their schools and when
they graduated. They found that while ... (Read more in DoubleX.)
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I’m feeling deflated this morning. For many decades, the legal
academy (and to some degree, even the rest of the universe) has been
debating the degree to which law is a scientific abstraction—a computer
you crank up that spits out the right answer—and the degree to which it
is malleable, subjective: a piece of clay that judges necessarily
shape. At times, legal realism, as the second position is called, has
gone too far. But mostly it’s a hugely welcome breath of fresh air, a
way of articulating what everyone intuitively understands. Judges are
not robots! They are not, in fact, umpires who just call balls and
strikes, to give in to John Roberts’ now all-pervasive sports metaphor,
because sometimes they have to determine the size and all the other
parameters of the strike zone.
But now we have Sonia Sotomayor going along with and indeed
promoting a view of the law as all about Input automatically dictating
Output. As she keeps putting it, in this or some other variation, “I’m
a judge who believes the facts drive the law. By drive the law, I mean,
determines how the law will apply in that individual case.” Sometimes,
it is true that ... (Read more in Double X.)
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A post from Double X writer KJ Dell'Antonia:
Susannah Jacob meant to write a humorous account of her failures as an IHOP waitress. Instead, she offered yet more fodder for our “entitled generation” conversation,
and revealed herself, intentionally or not, as being unable—or
unwilling—to succeed at one of today’s most elusive goals: an actual,
if unglamorous, job.
Jacobs lives in an affluent Dallas suburb. She’s heading to college
in the fall. She doesn’t, by her own admission, “need the paycheck.”
And it’s clear that she thinks it’s funny that someone like her ... (
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entire conversation about Generation Y at work, in Double X.)
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