Five Feet Tall but Towering Over All of Us: A Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg

How do you sum up a life like Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s? Several filmmakers have tried—two in 2018 alone—to capture the depth and scope and cultural heft of the Supreme Court justice’s sway over American history and the public imagination. A staunch defender of civil rights; a giant who stood only around 5 feet tall in her lace collars, sparkling brooches, oversized spectacles, and beloved scrunchies, Ginsburg was the very best of us, a striver for the right reasons: liberty, equality, an ever-expanding and evolving idea of what America is and could be, and the promise of a better tomorrow than today. She died on Friday of metastatic pancreatic cancer. She was 87 years old.

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