Virginia Postrel, Columnist

How Would a Kavanaugh Hearing Play Out in 2054?

Ubiquitious electronic records could show who’s telling the truth. Unless privacy laws make it impossible.

September 28, 2018 at 11:00 AM UTC

Virginia Postrel is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. She is a visiting fellow at the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy at Chapman University and author, most recently, of “The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World.”

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Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford were born too soon. Nothing like this would happen in 2054.

Today’s high school students leave too much electronic evidence of their behavior and whereabouts. Google tracks their movements. Instagram and Facebook, and their computers, phones, and cloud accounts, preserve their thousands of photos and videos.