Those who wax poetic about American greatness often make reference to our political customs and institutions — our founding principles, our Constitution, our tradition of republican self-rule. But those institutions themselves grew out of a deeper kind of exceptionalism, a…Read More
In 1967, I had the privilege of studying criminal law at Yale University. The teacher was a superpower in the field named Joe Goldstein. After a short time, we got to a series of cases where a prosecutor had empaneled…Read More
Houston, we have a problem. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took time off from leaving angry, obscene messages for underlings to give children a science lesson earlier this week. “Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and…Read More
It wasn’t about Israel. It was Nov. 28, 1941. Israel, founded in 1948 — seven years later — did not exist. The territory of modern-day Israel and Palestine was then under the control the British. Europe was at war. Adolf…Read More