The Devil’s Triangle: Mark Judge vs. the New American Stasi, by Mark Judge, Bombardier, 224 pages.

Not long after Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court, I met him as I was exiting a cocktail party. He held a bottle in one hand, wrapped in a napkin. I stopped him—surely I was one among many that night—and shook his free hand. When I walked to the door, I snuck a look at the label and chuckled. I murmured, not loud enough, I think, for him to hear, “We drank beer. I liked beer. Still like beer.”