Harvard law professor Noah Feldman had some very nice things to say about WASPs (in case you weren’t aware, that stands for White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) and their contribution to diversity in a recent New York Times article. So nice, in fact, that I wondered if I missed something.
Feldman starts off by noting that if Elena Kagan is confirmed as a US Supreme Court Justice, the court will consist of six Catholics and three Jews – a dramatic departure from as recently as five years ago when the court “had a plurality of white Protestants”. The change, he adds, “is a cause for celebration” in that “no one much cares about the nominee’s religion”.
