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I hate showing ID just as much as the next guy.  (Well maybe not as much as John Gilmore, one EFF's founders, who sued the federal government when he was denied boarding because he refused to show any ID.)   But as everyone knows sometimes it is background facts - i.e., not the facts of the case, but the facts in society - that drive ...

The Beijing Olympics are offering the world a nice look at what Chinese State PR looks like. A good example came yesterday, when Sun Weide, deputy director for communications for the Beijing Organizing Committee, presented this view of how the torch relay is going: ''I think the operation of the torch relay has been very smooth and very ...

Doug, Jack G. was actually not between two academic appointments, but rather coming from the Defense Department. If he were capable of being brainwashed, then that ought to have done it.

The first time I met John Yoo was in the E ring of the Pentagon in 2003 or so, near Don Rumsfeld's Office. He was carrying squash gear, as were his Pentagon pals, giving the E ring something of the atmosphere of a locker room. Yoo, a young man, was obsequiously hamming it up with the Pentagon's general counsel—among the people he was ...

Both the Clinton campaign and our comrades at Trailhead are complaining that Barack Obama was, in fact, never a law professor. Well was he?  Sorry Trailhead, but it's not so clear-cut. To see why requires a quick visit through the mists and mysteries of academic culture. Obama was a ''senior lecturer'' at Chicago.  When I was a ...

Can God create a boulder he cannot lift? That's the type of political question raised by the decision in Medellin: namely whether the Bush administration can create a court more resistant to enforcement of international law than the administration itself. And it seems that the answer is ''yes.'' The decision, boiled down, allows an ...