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To Err is Human
I really think you should take time to view the PBS documentary The Confessions. It tells the shocking story of the grave injustice done to four sailors in Norfolk, Virginia in 1997....
View ArticleTrump’s Constitution
In a year of shocking images, those from Charlottesville still chill me the most. Certainly those of “alt-right” marchers chanting “Jews will not replace us”, but even more so those of armed thugs...
View ArticleTime for Donald to Take a Big Fall
The title to Tim Wu’s op-ed in the NYT sounds the alarm– “How Twitter Killed the First Amendment.” https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/27/opinion/twitter-first-amendment.html?_r=0. . Professor Wu points...
View ArticleChina Has Big Plans for Your Future
When I first visited China in the 1980’s, the tallest building in Shanghai was the fourteen story Peace Hotel; when I returned a few years later, there were over fifty skyscrapers over fifty stories....
View ArticleThe Next America
Please excuse my optimism, but I think we are so mesmerized by the political gong show going on in Washington that we fail to notice a quiet democratic revolution taking place in American cities and...
View ArticleHow a Court Stops Being Supreme
The short answer is that the Supreme Court stops being supreme when it allows a political party to dictate the substance of its judges’ decisions. Let me explain. A good place to begin might be 1990...
View ArticleSaving the Supremes
I was recently complaining to a friend about the Republican party’s successful efforts to politicize the Supreme Court, efforts culminating in the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh. The “Federalist...
View ArticleConstitutional Math
In a recent post I called for Chief Justice John Roberts to act. I felt that the politicization of the Supreme Court was destroying its legitimacy in the eyes of most Americans and that the Chief...
View Article#Things Could Be Better
Laurentiu Ginghina works as a mid-level official in a local government housing office in Vaslui, Romania. But to me, Laurentiu is much more than a bureaucrat– he’s a prophet who shows us a new way...
View ArticleAffirmative Action for White Kids?
A recent lawsuit against Harvard College alleges that its admissions procedures covertly discriminate against Asian-American candidates. This lawsuit has national importance because the admission...
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