Washington Monthly - September/October 2021 - 10

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Editor's Note: What Is the Value of
a College Degree?
by Paul Glastris
Justice Stephen Breyer
Lives in a World of His Own
The brilliant jurist's surprisingly (or not)
weak case for the Supreme Court's
historic legitimacy.
by Garrett Epps
SEAL of Disapproval
How the Navy failed to stop-
and Donald Trump championed-
a murderous special operations leader.
by Thomas A. Ricks
A Constitution of Our Own Making
Two hundred years of amendments
have moved America's founding document
almost entirely in one direction: left.
by Caroline Fredrickson
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Paul Glastris
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