Globe and Mail: A careerist conundrum of Supreme proportions

(Op-ed by history professor Gil Troy): "U.S. President Barack Obama's nomination of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court triggered the frissons of pride and envy many of us feel when someone our age and from our humble background makes it. But Ms. Kagan's careerist conundrum is particularly fascinating. Did this woman with the perfect Princeton-Oxford-Harvard resume somehow lose her voice and her soul while climbing professionally as deliberately as she did? To be fair, to young New Yorkers in the 1970s, the notion of a woman sitting on the Supreme Court was downright revolutionary…"