https://pjmedia.com/rogerkimball/2011/10/23/the-bork-nomination-24-years-on/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 02:45:45 -0400<![CDATA[I have to admit that when I saw the headline &#8220;The Ugliness Started with Bork&#8221; over an op-ed column by Joe Nocera in The New York Times, I reckoned it would be yet another chapter in the long-running left-liberal campaign to demonize the great jurist Robert H. Bork. I was wrong. Today &#8212; October 23 &#8212; is the 24th anniversary of the Senate&#8217;s shameful vote against Bork&#8217;s nomination to the Supreme Court. Nocera wrote, if not to apologize, exactly, then at least to acknowledge that the poisonous campaign to discredit Bork &#8212; unprecedented in its nastiness &#8212; was &#8220;the beginning of the end of civil discourse in politics.&#8221;]]>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 12:00:19 -0400<![CDATA[Roger Kimball]]>https://pjmedia.com/roger-kimball/2011/10/23/the-bork-nomination-24-years-on-n116671