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Surely it is not a coincidence, then, that Caroline Kennedy finds herself drawn to the subject of privacy. Following the law-for-the-layman formula of the bestselling In Our Defense, a book on the Bill of Rights that she and Ellen Alderman, a friend from Columbia Law School, wrote...
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." --Louis D. Brandeis
Four Nazi men and women smile complacently and sip at their coffee in a small European cafe. In the background, Jewish men and women, their mouths open eternally in silent screams, are shoved and herded into a huge gas chamber that had once been a bathhouse. This is "Banality of...
"We chose to make this journey," Chicago told an audience at Brandeis on October 15 (she also spoke at Harvard on October 18), "and that's what's going to have to happen when the survivor generation dies off." Leaning on the podium, she stares thoughtfully through her purple-tinted...
Of course, extraordinary cases always run the risk of producing exaggerated lessons. In response to the abduction and murder of Polly Klaas, California and other states rushed to pass "three strikes'' sentencing laws with little thought for their effect on prisons and the courts. Now many legal observers worry about...