Bull Durham & Supreme Court Politics

How the best sports movie of all time relates to what I often write about.

Last week I spent time thinking about two things, the movie “Bull Durham” and calls to pack the Supreme Court, amid other proposals to “reform” an institution whose critics consider it to have become illegitimate. What do these subjects have in common? Not much, to be frank, other than in a tendentious English-major way that I could exercise poetic lice…