The Crime of Freeing Slaves

On this day in 1859, the Commonwealth of Virginia executed Shields Green and John Anthony Copeland, two black men who had joined John Brown’s fateful attempt to free the slaves…
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The Wrong Way to Resist BDS

The past few weeks have seen two more American academic associations join the boycott of Israeli colleges and universities. The American Anthropological Association (AAA) and that National Women’s Studies Association…
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Confidentiality and Contraband

I have this letter in today's New York Times: To the Editor: Dr. Sandeep Jauhar undermines his argument for physician-patient confidentiality by referring to an instance in which he accepted…
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Fact Checking Ben Carson

Earlier this week, I posted an essay on the implications of Ben Carson’s story about a bogus paternity action that he faced a few years ago.  My point was that ...
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Ben Carson and the Death Penalty

I had the following oped in the Chicago Tribune last week, explaining why Ben Carson's principles should lead him to oppose the death penalty: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-ben-carson-death-penalty-lubet-perspec-1113-20151112-story.html Ben Carson, a paternity case…
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Sometimes it pays to see a lawyer

The Chicago Tribune carries an advice column called "Housing Counsel" by Benny L. Kass.  Today's installment begins with this letter:  My 80-year-old grandmother gave me a gift: her house. She…
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Deportees

Donald Trump has lately been extolling the virtues of Operation W__B___ under the Eisenhower administration in 1954, claiming it as a model for "humane" deportation.  "You don't get nicer, you…
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BDS Developments

Dale Carpenter on the disruption of Moshe Halbertal's lecture at the University of Minnesota Law School; here. An account from the disrupters' side; here. Kevin Jon Heller explains his abstention…
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