Working backwards from the absence of a note, you dig into the signs—had he seemed depressed, checked out? He'd been to the doctor recently, had he gotten bad news? Was this a delayed response to past trauma? Were there signs of dementia? Any clues in his email inbox? Perhaps

The intellectual progeny of Clarence Thomas have been trying to reframe civil rights for decades. So, I think I mentioned last time that I would be reading a wide variety of books in an effort to understand how various ideas about America’s social contract was shaped. For a different

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