We have reached a very odd place in our national politics: not long ago, Republicans would consistently out-gun Democrats on being “tough on communists,” especially Russia –– who can forget President Reagan saying, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” The...
It’s a free country right? Especially with regard to free speech, and what lawyers say in a legal brief or in oral argument: other than insulting the judge and risking a contempt of court order, lawyers can just say the “darndest” things, recalling Art...
by Don Mayer I used to work for a man who truly believed that if you weren’t a multi-millionaire you probably didn’t have much common sense. “ I can only learn from people who know how to make a lot of money,” he once told me. J. Baker...
In the U.S., we enjoy the protections of the First Amendment, particularly around political speech –– talking or writing about the wrongs that government and its agencies do. In Russia, as in many other autocratic legal/political systems, dissent is punished by the...
I’ve long admired Norm Ornstein, a public intellectual who leans conservative and has written several books that illuminate the current political dysfunctions in the United States. See, for example, It’s Even Worse than it Looks, reviewed here by Robert Kaiser for...
