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Supreme Court Justice John Roberts gave the commencement speech at his son’s 9th grade graduation. This section was striking:
Now the commencement speakers will typically also wish you good luck and extend good wishes to you. I will not do that, and I’ll tell you why. From time to time in the years to come, I hope you will be treated unfairly, so that you will come to know the value of justice. I hope that you will suffer betrayal because that will teach you the importance of loyalty. Sorry to say, but I hope you will be lonely from time to time so that you don’t take friends for granted. I wish you bad luck, again, from time to time so that you will be conscious of the role of chance in life and understand that your success is not completely deserved and that the failure of others is not completely deserved either. And when you lose, as you will from time to time, I hope every now and then, your opponent will gloat over your failure. It is a way for you to understand the importance of sportsmanship. I hope you’ll be ignored so you know the importance of listening to others, and I hope you will have just enough pain to learn compassion.Whether I wish these things or not, they’re going to happen. And whether you benefit from them or not will depend upon your ability to see the message in your misfortunes.
“Young slung, hung here, showed that a person from here / With a little ambition, just what we can become here / And as the father pass the story down to his son’s ears / Young’ll get younger every year, yeah.” — Jay Z
Earlier this week, Kathryn Rubino suggested in these pages that Chief Justice John Roberts might have thrown some shade at President Donald Trump in the commencement address that Roberts gave at his son’s middle-school graduation from the elite Cardigan Mountain School.
Chief Justice Roberts’s recent speech was picked up by The Washington Post,SCOTUSblog, Quartz, and ATL, among numerous other outlets. And for good reason.
At the time it was given, the Chief Justice’s speech didn’t receive much fanfare, but after being recorded and uploaded to YouTube by the school, it received wide praise.
While commencement speakers normally wish their audience immeasurable success, Roberts unconventionally wished Cardigan’s young graduates a bit of a tougher lot in life.
Chief Justice Roberts may have aimed his advice at the kids, and possibly Donald Trump, but surely we as young professionals can learn a thing or two from his wise words as well.
Here are my top-ten takeaways for law students and young attorneys from last month’s address:
Chief Justice Roberts ended his speech by reading some historic lyrics:
The adoration has clearly gone to Macron’s already swollen bonce. He’s acting like a ‘liberal strongman’, says Politico, seemingly intending it as a compliment – he’s setting out to defend the so-called liberal order while garbing himself in the pomp and power of the old French monarchy. On Monday he summoned parliament to the Palace of Versailles, echoing ‘Sun King’ Louis XIV’s pronouncements to the nobility. And his team are talking up his ‘Jupiterian’ approach – a reference to the supreme Roman god, standing above the fray with thunderbolts in hand.These lyrics are from the great American philosopher Bob Dylan. They are almost fifty years old. He wrote them for his son Jesse, who he was missing while he was on tour.They list the hopes that a parent might have for a son and for a daughter. They are also good goals for a son and a daughter.The wishes are beautiful, timeless, and universal. They are good and true,except for one. It is the wish that gives the song its title and its refrain. That wish is a parent’s lament. It is not a good wish. So these are the lyrics from ‘Forever Young,’ by Bob Dylan:May God bless and keep you always / May your wishes all come true / May you always do for others / And let others do for you / May you build a ladder to the stars / And climb on every rung / May you stay forever young...
It’s not just the imagery that’s autocratic. In his Versailles speech, he laid out plans to streamline parliament. He wants to cut a third of MPs from the National Assembly, restrict representatives to two-term tenures, introduce a ‘dose’ of proportional representation, and cut back on unnecessary lawmaking. These tinkering policies may not seem much on the face of it. But as one academic pointed out, all of this will serve to shore up executive power – emboldening bureaucrats over representatives, and filling parliament with newer, less battle-ready MPs.Macron has styled himself as the successor to de Gaulle, the father of the Fifth Republic who redirected power to the French presidency amid times of imperial crisis and parliamentary gridlock. Under the guise of ‘getting things done’, and pushing through his controversial labour-law reforms, Macron is similarly seeking to disempower the parliament and boost the executive, which already has far fewer checks on it than, say, the US presidency. And yet for all the media fearmongering over Herr Trump, Macron’s machinations seem not to have worried commentators or the global elite.
That is Macron is overrated. And here are brief remarks from Corey Robin. Once you understand endogeneity, it should come as not a huge surprise that “the candidate you want” so often ends up resembling “the candidate you don’t want” more than you had expected.