Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court, America, and the March of Time

Brett Kavanaugh sworn in as Associate Supreme Court Justice. Chief Justice John Roberts administered the constitutional oath. (CNN)

The late historian Howard Zinn spent a lifetime writing from the margins — -illuminating the omissions, the mythologies, the hypocrisies, the dark America that remains unmentionable. In 2005, after Chief Justice John G. Roberts was confirmed to bring SCOTUS majority right wing, Zinn took to The Progressive to opine: “Do not despair about the Supreme Court.”