Along with most of my friends and most of the people I respect, I rejoiced in the result of the Supreme Court’s recent Obergefell decision, establishing same-sex marriage as a constitutionally protected right. Yet I realized as soon as I ...
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Read More »Eight hundred years ago this month, at a spot that now looks up at a glide path for jets coming into Heathrow from the west, England’s King John signed a parchment of some approximately 3600 words of Latin. Today we ...
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Read More »The riots were like Rohrschach ink blots, in which you could see almost any side of any issue. We’ll have to work with our confusion. But changes must be made.
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Read More »E.M. Forster famously wrote: “If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.” I was reminded of that line watching Amy Herzog’s 2010 play After the Revolution, now in revival at Center Stage.
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Read More »Student discipline procedure at our nation’s colleges and universities is a disgrace that the recent controversy over how to handle rape allegations will unfortunately probably deepen.
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Read More »I experienced a flash of indignation when I read that the European Union is planning to inflict its “right to be forgotten” rules on U.S. search engine providers.
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Read More »The hostility recently shown by some members of the New York Police Department toward Mayor Bill de Blasio seems to be a feeling in search of a socially acceptable articulation.
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Read More »Blame (or credit) Woodrow Wilson. And the Russians. It was reportedly Wilson in 1918 who first spoke of “the right of self-determination of peoples” as something international law should recognize.
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Read More »Secession and the prospects of secession have been much in the news. Eastern Ukraine, ISIS, and Scotland, to name three, are areas where there have been efforts to partition out a new country from an old one, or, in the case of ISIS, from two of them.
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Read More »When the Supreme Court decided U.S. v. Windsor last year and invalidated part of DOMA, the federal Defense of Marriage Act (which denied same-sex marriages federal recognition), it was clearly taking an interim step.
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