seems hopelessly naive right now, but it is not more naive than the notion that antonin scalia and robert bork and lauren silverman had when they were scholars 50 years ago, that we could have originalist judges dominating the judiciary. strategic naivete is actually crucial to successful reform work. you have to be a little bit naive about what you love the most. you're not a cold eyed realist about your spouse or your friends, and you should be just a little naive about our country, too, and about its prospects. not so naive as to be optimistic. don't do that, but just naive enough to be hopeful. and so to fight for our constitution and not against it. there are a lot of people now, including some on the right, who are ready to give up on the constitution or to dismiss it as inadequate to a society that is as divided as ours. but i think they are exactly wrong. the constitution was intended exactly to address the problem we have now. the challenge of governing ourselves despite deep divisions. and in a way that might heal those divisions just a little, might bring us a little closer together

so robert bork at the time was against radical egalitarian ism. when you hear him define, you realize he's talking about what we now call wokeism, right? the same tensions existed then, but then they kind of broke for a while and now they're back. and even more intense, exacerbated form. so i wanted wonderful point i want to talk about something you write about the u.s. is an envy engine. it's sort of a nation of the have everything and we see that bravo a whole channel you know that's dedicated devoted to people who seem to have everything and the want everything's but can't. right and, you know, we can blame social media, obviously, but it again, an accelerant it wouldn't work if there was an audience anyway. there just seem to be so many ways to be miserable, annoyed and angered. i would love if you would read about sort of microclimates of privilege yeah, i think something has happened in our service economy that is a piece of this puzzle. when i was a teenager in the late 1970s and early 1980s, okay, you can do the arithmetic i'm 59 when i wa

robert bork at the time was talking about radical egalitarianism. when you hear him to find it, he's talking about what we call woke is him. same tensions existed and now they are back even more. >> >> you talk about the u.s. about the have everything's and a whole channel and people who seem to have everything. and we can blame social media, but it is an accelerant. there seems to be so many ways to be miserable and annoyed and angry and i would love if you would read about these microclimates of privilege. but something has happened in the service economy that the piece of the puzzle. when i was a teenager in the late 1970s, i'm 59, when i was a teenager and went to the big concerts to major performers, different sections of seating had different prices, but they fell into a few general categories. a proximity to the stage had less to do with her financial reserve that would've quickly and heroically she acted to get tickets. i once showed up at the box office of the hartford civic center at 3:00 a.m. in pitchdark to get tickets for queen consort