Brooks is So Good it Hurts

He can be nuanced to a fault.
Herein he discusses Justice Sotomayor in a multi-faceted way:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/opinion/09brooks.html?_r=1

What I find disconcerting is that he now accepts as OK that the vast majority of discrimination cases should be dismissed. (And that is Sotomayor's record as well.) This concept has never been verbalized outside the inner sanctums of the plaintiffs' bar.