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Judith Miller Recants; Where's The Media?
In "The Story: A Reporter's Journey," which hit book store shelves Tuesday, April 7, former New York Times reporter Judith Miller revealed in the final chapter that she now believes that she was induced by then-Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald to give false testimony in the 2007 trial of I. "Lewis" Scooter Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.
A Citizenship Test — But Not Just For Students
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Carly Fiorina recommends that all students take an American citizenship test in their school career. The New Yorker reported that "the National Conference of State Legislatures, which tracks state legislation, reported that seven states—Arizona, Idaho, Louisiana, North Dakota, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah—passed such laws in the first half of the year; in July, they were joined by Wisconsin."
George Will's Guide To Conserving The Founders' Liberalism
Patrick Deneen's disdainful review last month in the Washington Post of George Will's splendid new book, "The Conservative Sensibility," reasserts fashionable misconceptions about liberalism, conservatism, and America. The review — and, more importantly, the book — provide an occasion to clarify the character of the conservatism that takes its bearings from the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and from the ideas about human nature and freedom that undergird them.
Obama's Empathy Test
In discharging their constitutional duty to provide advice and, if they deem appropriate, give consent to President Barack Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court, Senators should examine the critical importance the president attaches to empathy...
A Lawsuit Accuses Yale Of Censoring Even Inoffensive Ideas
A class essay condemning rape was 'unnecessarily provocative,' the Title IX coordinator allegedly said.
The Briefing: The Complexities Of Cybersecurity
In June 2013, when he began leaking thousands of classified documents — from among hundreds of thousands that he had stolen — about America's global surveillance programs, Edward Snowden, a former employee of the National Security Agency, confirmed the arrival of the cyber era...
College Rape Accusations and the Presumption of Male Guilt
Late August and early September bring recent high school graduates, bright and eager, to campuses around the country.
A Heretic At Duke Divinity School
The dean brings charges of 'unprofessional conduct' for a vigorous defense of free inquiry.
James Comey And Robert Mueller Imperil The Rule Of Law
The former FBI directors tend to investigate Republicans far more zealously than Democrats.
Future Challenges E-Book
In the new online volume, Future Challenges in National Security and Law, members of the Hoover Institution's Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law and guest contributors offer incisive commentary on the controversies that have erupted over national security law in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, laying the foundations for understanding such future issues...
Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution: Debating the Enemy Combatant Cases
Terrorism, the Laws of War, and the Constitution examines three enemy combatant cases that represent the leading edge of U.S. efforts to devise legal rules, consistent with American constitutional principles, for waging the global war on terror. The distinguished contributors analyze the crucial questions these cases raise about the balance between national security and civil liberties in wartime and call for a reexamination of the complex connections between the Constitution and international law.
Power Misdirected
Did the Boumediene decision represent a victory for separation of powers? Hardly, despite what the Supreme Court majority claimed. Instead, it was judicial overreach. By Peter Berkowitz.
Rally round the Constitution
What sustains the conservative agenda? What makes it distinctive and coherent? In a word, principle. By Peter Berkowitz.
The Constitution and Globalization
Peter Berkowitz on Taming Globalization: International Law, the U.S. Constitution, and the New World Order by Julian Ku and John Yoo
Reading into the Constitution
Peter Berkowitz on Living Originalism by Jack M. Balkin
A Misreading of Law and History on Preemptive Strikes
Liberalism these days seems to encourage an illiberal and anti-democratic tendency to turn hard questions of morality and politics into easy questions of law...
Veiled Threat?
France may have a case for banning the burqa. By Peter Berkowitz.
Clarence Thomas, Plato and 'Grand Theft Auto'
Debates over free expression and educating the young are as old as our civilization...
Would a Military Strike Against Iran Be Legal?
Having the law on their side as they grapple with the momentous decision is for [Israel and Iran] -- the leaders and the people -- a strategic and political asset...