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If you tell the Legislatures they have violated the treaty of peace and invaded the prerogatives of the confederacy they will laugh in your face. What then is to be…

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First Two CBS Teasers on Siegelman Now Up CBS News has just posted the first teaser for its feature, to air on Sunday, concerning the prosecution of former Alabama Governor…

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Last week the Department of Defense launched a major media offensive. It announced that trials of six “high-value detainees” linked to the attacks on 9/11 would be charged in proceedings…

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Heald þ? n?, hr?se, //n? hæleð ne m?ston, eorla æhte. //Hwæt! hit ær on þ? g?de bege?ton;//g?ð-d?að fornam, feorh-bealo fr?cne//fyra gehwylcne, l?oda m?nra, þ?ra þe þis l?f ofgeaf, ges?won sele-dr?am.//N?h…

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I am advised by CBS News that their long-awaited feature dealing with the trial of former Alabama Governor Don E. Siegelman will air on the next 60 Minutes program, on…

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Ross Tuttle’s article in the Nation, including his interview with Colonel Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor at Guantánamo, and my comments, can be read here; Amy Goodman’s interview with…

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I was thinking some time back about what persuaded me to become a lawyer. Two books played a role. One was Harper Lee’s ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ and the other…

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Die Menschen stehen vorwärts in den Straßen Und sehen auf die großen Himmelszeichen, Wo die Kometen mit den Feuernasen Um die gezackten Türme drohend schleichen. Und alle Dächer sind voll…

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Today No Comment features an interview with Anthony Lewis based on his new book Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment. Lewis celebrates the…

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Security is like liberty, in that many are the crimes committed in its name. The menace to the security of this country, be it great as it may, from this…

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Harper’s legal affairs contributor Scott Horton and The Nation’s Ross Tuttle will appear on DemocracyNow! with Amy Goodman tomorrow, Wednesday, February 20, for a discussion of breaking news concerning the…

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The George Polk awards remember a great CBS correspondent who died covering the Greek Civil War. They are, alongside the Pulitzer Prize, a recognition for the profession’s high achievers. Today…

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This President’s Day weekend offered us another demonstration for the proposition that, in the view of the American mainstream media, Afghanistan doesn’t matter. And if Pakistan matters, apparently it’s only…

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For those, like Joe Klein and a large part of the mainstream media, who can’t be bothered to actually understand the debate over FISA (“it’s just too complicated!”) and who…

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Covey sneaked into the stable, in his peculiar snake-like way, and seizing me suddenly by the leg, he brought me to the stable floor, giving my newly mended body a…

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George Orwell, my favorite essayist, described reading Kipling’s poetry as “a shameful pleasure, like the taste for cheap sweets that some people secretly carry into middle life.” That, I have…

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I Leaguered in fire The wild black promontories of the coast extend Their savage silhouettes; The sun in universal carnage sets, And, halting higher, The motionless storm-clouds mass their sullen…

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The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse, of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be concealed or disclosed, or disclosed…

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Jonah Goldberg, Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning (Doubleday 2008). “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather…

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Harper’s legal affairs contributor Scott Horton and Salon legal affairs contributor Glenn Greenwald will appear on today’s Seder on Sunday at 5:00 Eastern, 4:00 Central, 2:00 Pacific time, to discuss…

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[D]em ewigen Geiste löst sich alles in Harmonie auf; er weiß, daß ein jeder die Sprache redet, die Er ihm angeschaffen hat, daß ein jeder sein Inneres äußert wie er…

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In Alabama, as we have noted, the public has been told that it faces a grave menace. No, it’s not crack dealers, organized crime, a drought, or even the failure…

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On Valentine’s Day the Bush Administration was out on a mission, straight from the Orwellian Ministry of Love. That ministry of course served in Nineteen Eighty-Four as the center for…

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Leñador. Córtame la sombra. Líbrame del suplicio de verme sin toronjas. ¿Por qué nací entre espejos? El día me da vueltas. Y la noche me copia en todas sus estrellas.…

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It is the iron rule in our day to require an object and a purpose in life. It makes us all parts of a complicated scheme of progress, which can…

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It’s been seven months since the Judiciary Committee subpoenaed White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers to appear and give evidence in connection…

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While working in London back in October, I had a chance to see the fabulous new production of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ by Rupert Goold. The production has now crossed the Atlantic…

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Um noch über das Belehren, wie die Welt sein soll, ein Wort zu sagen, so kommt dazu ohnehin die Philosophie immer zu spät. Als der Gedanke der Welt erscheint sie…

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