“Ah, if you love wisdom so much, why don’t you marry the Constitution?” Mark asked. “Still, I believe that the highest form of Eros is not the love of bodies, but rather the love of wisdom.” “Certainly, many of the young women at that school are physically attractive,” I told my schoolyard chums. Afterwards, the boys debated which of the girls at National Cathedral was “the hottest.” I refused to engage in their sordid discussion. The competition was vigorous, but sportsmanlike. In the evening, shot some baskets with my fellow adolescent males. Studied for the SATs for three hours, then spent the afternoon reading to the blind. Rather than substitute our commentary for hard evidence, we’ve chosen to simply publish the excerpts in full: Now, in hopes of setting the record straight, Kavanaugh’s attorneys have provided New York with another primary source document: excerpts from a diary Kavanaugh kept that very same summer. The calendar shows that Kavanaugh went on beach vacations with his family, and to “basketball games, movie outings, football workouts and college interviews” - but contains not a single marked entry for an underage drinking party. To substantiate his account of his high-school years, Kavanaugh has released a personal calendar from the summer of 1982 (when Ford alleges that he assaulted her). Dolphin attended one high school event together and shared a brief kiss good night following that event.” (Dolphin claims she has never kissed Brett Kavanaugh.) For example, his lawyer claims that the “Renate Alumnus” bit is no misogynistic boast about an act of fornication, but merely a reference to the fact that “Judge Kavanaugh and Ms. Still, Kavanaugh says that these inscriptions are misleading. That document brands Kavanaugh as King of “the Beach Week Ralph Club,” Treasurer of the “Keg City Club - 100 Kegs or Bust,” and a “Renate Alumnus” - an apparent insinuation that Kavanaugh was one of many Georgetown Prep graduates to have sexual relations with Renate Schroeder Dolphin, then a girl at a nearby Catholic school. His allies insist that, if some young man did attempt to rape Christine Blasey at a party in the summer of 1982, he must have been a Kavanaugh look-alike.īut Kavanaugh’s senior yearbook at Georgetown Prep appears to undermine some parts of his narrative. He further maintains that he was a virgin in high school and for many years after. Kavanaugh admits that he did attend some parties in his day, and that “the drinking age was 18, and yes, the seniors were legal and had beer there.” But the Supreme Court nominee has not confessed to underage drinking, or drinking to the point of blacking out (let alone to committing sexual assault). On Monday night, the Supreme Court nominee told Fox News that “the vast majority of the time I spent in high school was studying or focused on sports and being a good friend to the boys and the girls that I was friends with.” He went on to say that he spent his adolescence “focused on academics and athletics, going to church every Sunday … working on my service projects and friendship - friendship with my fellow classmates and friendship with girls from the local all-girls Catholic schools.” Kavanaugh insists that he has “always treated women with dignity and respect” - a claim endorsed by 65 women who say that they knew Kavanaugh well during his high-school years. But Kavanaugh, and others who knew him in his youth, paint a very different picture. But in recent days, it has morphed into a debate over what kind of teenage boy he once was.Ĭhristine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez, and a few of Kavanaugh’s former classmates say that the young Brett was a hard-partying frat boy, one capable of becoming violent and sexually abusive in his inebriation. The fight over Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation began as an argument about what kind of Supreme Court justice he would be.
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