Gun Control and the Enlightenment

Once again, tragedy strikes. The news lights up with the latest mass shooting, and we invariably revisit the same responses, across the political spectrum. Everyone is horrified and disheartened. No one wants to…

“Do you know what I did today?” I asked my friend, Wallace Lee (now Judge Lee of the Sixth District Court). Now, Wally was a fellow attorney and we had been practicing law together for some time, but he would still trust what I said.

I received the following letter in my imagination.

Dear Attorney at Law —

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it on Medium, it’s so.” Please tell me…

Gil Scott Heron’s The Revolution Will Not Be Televised captured the spirit of the civil rights movement in part by citing the pop icons and politicos of his day and informing the populace that the real revolution would not be…

On this Thanksgiving holiday, I thought I would note that I am thankful for disagreement and dissent. Our law has been formulated out of a contested disagreement. The process of dissenting is the civil interaction between opposing ideas in a legal forum. The decisions in the marbled halls of…