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Elmire: Mais des arrêts du Ciel on nous fait tant de peur. Tartuffe: Je puis vous dissiper ces craintes ridicules, Madame, et je sais l’art de lever les scrupules. Le…

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The story out of the Frank M. Johnson Federal Courthouse in Montgomery never seems to change. It is a chronicle of abusive conduct by a federal judge who treats his…

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I am getting lots of nudges from readers who want me to handicap races and comment on debates. I’m flattered that people think I’d be any good at that. I’m…

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A few weeks ago, I testified before the Judiciary Committee in connection with their examination of crimes committed among contractors in Iraq. This was a matter within the exclusive jurisdiction…

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Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than…

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The American conundrum in the war on terror might be summarized by a historian twenty years from now in these terms. Under George Bush, effectively drawn and implemented military plans…

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Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam Im Norden auf kahler Höh. Ihn schläfert; mit weißer Decke Umhüllen ihn Eis und Schnee. Er träumt von einer Palme, Die, fern im Morgenland, Einsam und…

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If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. — That strain again! It had a…

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In an interview with the Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot, President Bush compared himself with Washington and Lincoln–as he has done dozens of times before–discusses his foreign policy aspirations and expectations…

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And behold, in the forty-third year of my passing course, while I was intent upon a heavenly vision with great fear and tremulous effort, I saw a great splendour, in…

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Albrecht Dürer, St. Jerome in his Study (1514), Vier Bücher von menschlicher Proportion (1528) When I’m feeling overwhelmed, depressed, burdened with a thousand things that I can’t juggle fast enough.…

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Denn wahrhaftig steckt die Kunst in der Natur, wer sie heraus kann reißen, der hat sie. Truly art is firmly fixed in Nature. He who can extract her thence, he…

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President George W. Bush got through his first term without a veto, but now he’s learning to make use of the power the Constitution gives him to veto legislation. Nothing…

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Today, America begins a celebration of democracy. It is to be approached joyously, with optimism and hope, but also in earnestness. The process will last through early November. It will…

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Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.…

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Eine große Rede läßt sich leicht auswendig lernen und noch leichter ein großes Gedicht. Wie schwer würde es nicht halten, eben so viel ohne allen Sinn verbundene Wörter, oder eine…

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What do Vladimir Putin, George W. Bush and Hu Jintao have in common? They are the heads of the three most significant nations whose people live under “endemic surveillance”—that is…

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It popped out from under a creaking floorboard in the old manse in Fairfield: a notebook with the fine script of a poet laureate. Was it an unpublished work of…

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“Goodness. Yeah, just plain, simple goodness. Well you can’t inherit that from anybody. You got to make it, Doc. If you want it. And you got to make it out…

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A New Year, new resolutions. Most of us will be thinking of shedding pounds and advancing our positions in the workplace. But in this process, Americans should think of their…

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¿Qué os admira? ¿Qué os espanta, si fue mi maestro un sueño, y estoy temiendo, en mis ansias, que he de despertar y hallarme otra vez en mi cerrada prisión?…

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For legal commentators, the Bush White House and Justice Department are the gift that just keeps giving. Never before has such a torrent of inanities and absurdities gushed forth from…

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Tomorrow marks the bicentennial of America’s prohibition of the slave trade, one of the last significant legislative acts of the presidency of Thomas Jefferson. The absence of public recognition of…

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The most outlandish political show trial in American history occurred in a federal court in Pennsylvania; in fact it occurred twice. The year was 1799, and the retrial was in…

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Wie manche schöne Statt, Die sonst das gantze Land durch Pracht gezieret hat, Ist jetzund Asch unnd Staub? Die Mauren sind verheeret, Die Kirchen hingelegt, die Häuser umbgekehret. Wie wann…

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Cumque plurimas et maximas commoditates amicitia contineat, tum illa nimirum præstat omnibus, quod bonam spem prælucet in posterum, nec debilitari animos aut cadere patitur. Verum etiam amicum qui intuctur, tamquam…

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Today the New York Times’s Scott Shane and Mark Mazzetti offer us a further exploration of the CIA’s torture tapes, this time with a focus on why they were created…

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