Elena Kagan, Member: The Ruling Class

[From article]
"If you are Laurence Tribe in 1984, Harvard professor of law, you can "write" using the products of your student assistant, Ron Klain. After Klain admits having written some parts of the book, and the other parts are found to be verbatim or paraphrases of a book published in 1974, you can claim (perhaps correctly) that your plagiarism was "inadvertent," and you can count on the Law School's dean, Elena Kagan, to appoint a committee including former and future Harvard president Derek Bok that issues a secret report that "closes" the incident. Incidentally, Kagan ends up a justice of the Supreme Court. Not one of these people did their jobs: the professor did not write the book himself, the assistant plagiarized instead of researching, the dean and the committee did not hold the professor accountable, and all ended up rewarded. [. . .]For our ruling class, identity always trumps."
See entire essay at

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the

America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution

By Angelo M. Codevilla from the July 2010 - August 2010 issue