Homegirl Ginsburg briefly shines through, as she usually does. Could anyone tell me why someone would thing that it would be a mistake for U.S. courts to cite international cases when ruling on international legal issues such as torture? Especially since these citations are NON-BINDING and thus do not produce PRECEDENT! —“But these international courts are not bound by the American Constitution to serve the interests of the American people.”—Hogwash.
Also, the job market is now oversaturated with former employees of Lehman Brothers, etc. Ditto for grad schools, law schools, and MBA programs. Things are getting ever worse for Americans just exiting college or trying to find careers.
All these signs of decline have brought me to this nostalgic question: what is your favorite decade in American history (leave comments!)? Mine is the 1950’s. Sure, there were inponderably nasty things like McCarthyism, the Cold War, Korea, unappologetically rampant racism and sexism, and so on. But America was at the top of its game as a producer of great culture and science, at least as perceived by the west (at a time when ‘the east’ that sat distinct from ‘the west’ was Russia and not, as it is today, Asia). Rock and jazz were just emerging, American art, architecture, and design were making their old-world European counterparts look irrelevant to modernity. American science, driven by government spending and held within the western scientific community as a secret, was proceeding at the most rapid pace history had seen. And on and on.
