The cover article (available here now) in the forthcoming issue of the Weekly Standard is Adam J. White’s excellent “Justice Thomas, Undaunted”—a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Justice Thomas’s nomination to the Supreme Court. (I’m pleased to have contributed to NRO’s recent symposium on the same topic.)

White’s article is in part a reflection on Thomas’s “immense contributions to American constitutionalism” and in part a devastating dissection of (surprise!) the pervasive bias in HBO’s recent and little-watched docudrama on Thomas’s confirmation hearings. White nicely connects the two parts:

The 25th anniversary of [Thomas’s] nomination offers us the chance to think once again, in [docudrama actress’s] Kerry Washington’s words, “about courage and being up against forces that feel more powerful than you.” It is an apt description of Clarence Thomas’s service on the Court. Undaunted by the abuse directed towards him by a small but relentless army of opponents, Justice Thomas succeeded alongside the late Justice Antonin Scalia in fostering tectonic changes in modern American constitutionalism. And with Justice Scalia now gone, Justice Thomas’s voice on the Court is more important than ever.