Elena Kagan worked under Under the tutelage of Sean Wilentz lefty historian, friend of the Clintons, and notorious Bush-basher Kagan wrote a thesis called To the Final Conflict: Socialism in New York City, 1900-1933, which first raised eyebrows when Kagan was being considered for Souters seat last year:
Americans are more likely to speak of a golden past than of a golden future, of capitalisms glories than of socialisms greatness, she wrote in her thesis. Conformity overrides dissent; the desire to conserve has overwhelmed the urge to alter. Such a state of affairs cries out for explanation.
She called the story of the socialist movements demise a sad but also a chastening one for those who, more than half a century after socialisms decline, still wish to change America In unity lies their only hope.