Conventional wisdom holds that Elena Kagan revealed little but a knack for empty platitudes during her U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearing. She simply followed a script, commentators said – a script that nominees for two decades have used and that she slammed in a 1995 law review article.

But the popular analysis misses a lot that Kagan did tell the nation.

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