Jill Lepore

very frequently in conflict with the reasoning behind the Brown decision, right?

Which was history doesn't matter.

We need to do the right thing, right?

But this Mays guy, one of the reasons he's so interesting and I wish that people would spend a little more time paying attention to him is

He left this elaborate diary that any other person would probably either have destroyed or their descendants would have destroyed.

But he was like a board member of the Virginia Museum of History.

He left his diary to the museum.

Like his diary begins when he's a young person with...

He goes to a lynching in the 19-teens and he writes about how exciting it was.

Then he goes to... He takes a train to D.C.

specifically so he can see Birth of a Nation.

Like, he is that guy.

And then you see him in the 50s, like, arguing for segregation.

And then he writes the intellectual justification for originalism in the 60s.

Like...

And it's kind of all spelled out in the diary, which has been printed because just really recently, within the last 10 years, someone, a great scholar edited and printed, had printed the diary.

And it's, you know, it's the autobiography of segregation.

Yeah.

And of course, in our era, it's liberals who made the Supreme Court that monarchical power, right?

So sadly, there's not a lot of...