![Whenever I felt tempted to, I don't know, watch cat videos or bad Netflix TV instead of writing this [Louis] Brandeis biography, I thought of his stern but kindly visage and buckled down and wrote the damn thing, because there's so much information out there, and these are such anxious times in democracy, such unreasonable times.](/assets/img/quote-photos/whenever-i-felt-tempted-to-i-dont-know-watch-cat-videos-or-bad-netflix-tv-inst.jpg)
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