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How the Constitution Invented Hollywood and Silicon Valley
Few classes in law school are drier and more arcane than courses on patents and copyrights. And while the debate about intellectual property include…
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LBJ, Selma and the Great Society
Our mission statement as a country tells us we are a government of laws, and not of men. Yet without great men, including Adams, who said this, we w…
11 years, 1 month ago
Lies, Damned Lies and Love
As novels and movies have repeatedly shown us, when both partners in a relationship tell the story of that relationship, the images, the memories, th…
11 years, 1 month ago
The Federalist Society and the conservative Revolution
As we watch presidential candidates, on both sides, putting together their respective teams for 2016, it reminds us that politics and public policy i…
11 years, 1 month ago
This is your Brain on Food
We’ve all heard the expression, “you are what you eat.” Yet when we think about some of the things we consume, the fast food, the junk food, the endl…
11 years, 2 months ago
What we don't see about the Middle East
To the extent that we are all the sum total of our wider experience and our private moments, imagine how that might be magnified amidst the terror, t…
11 years, 2 months ago
Lemony Snicket vs. The Pirates
It was Thoreau who said that “the masses of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” The characters at the center of Daniel Handler’s new adult novel W…
11 years, 2 months ago
Chuck Todd captures the Catch 22 of the Obama Presidency
Fifty-five years ago Joseph Heller gave us the paradox of Catch 22. It came to mean a set of contradictory ideas and rules that conflicted with them…
11 years, 2 months ago
Can Boomers afford to age with dignity?
It’s been said that if you live to an old age, you give give up all the things that make you want to live to an old age. At a time when 10,000 boome…
11 years, 2 months ago
Filmmaking that truly stands the test of time
Can you imagine if immediately after 9/11, filmmakers like Scorsese, Spielberg, Coppola, Fincher or Apatow would enlist in the military to make films…
11 years, 2 months ago