While we’re grappling with exporting our constitutional principles to those less fortunate in the world, it is important to note that some of them are under siege here at home. In an important book, The Case Against Lawyers, former Texas judge and current host of Court TV Catherine Crier makes a bold statement about the […]

The outcry on this subject has been somewhat muted by the moderate approach used by the Bush administration in the John Walker case. (More moderation than he deserves, I might add.) As David Henninger has noted, the first thing to be said in defense of the use of military tribunals is that if nothing else […]

Unfortunately for the republic, one of the most critical issues that energize both sides of the Presidential election is the prospect that the new President will likely appoint several Supreme Court Justices, not to mention scores of Federal judges on lower benches. I say “unfortunately” because our Founders could not have conceived of the current […]

I won’t pretend to be conversant with antitrust law or precedent, nor am I technically competent enough to ferret out the intricacies of Microsoft’s alleged competitive transgressions. It occurs to me, however, that this company is one of the great success stories of all time, not just for its management and shareholders, but also for […]