Common to observe that Supreme Court justices drift left over their tenure, but what’s the theory behind why? What do you learn about law and human nature in your 50s and 60s that you didn’t learn earlier? (And are they the only cohort of Americans who get more liberal with age?)
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I feel that high status breeds magnanimity when the status is secure (lifetime appointment?) when the status is easy to lose, contempt appears as a way to defend the status



