Statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on addressing the problems of Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 that cause excessive and wasteful expense, bureaucracy and paperwork.

The corporate scandals of this past spring and summer have given hope to the would-be regulators that they might be able to reclaim some lost territory.

If things develop in Eastern Europe as expected, Europeans will have new burdens to assume. Americans will have old burdens to relinquish.

Review of Suzanne Garment's Scandal: The Culture of Mistrust in American Politics

The Court is no longer primarily a legal institution but rather a political and cultural power.

The handling of the recent crash of EgyptAir 990 exposed the state of Egyptian-American relations.

The counterculture that emerged in the United States in the 1960′s—and pretty much simultaneously in all the Western democracies—is certainly one of the most significant events in the last half-century of Western civilization. It has reshaped our educational systems, our arts, our forms of entertainment, our sexual conventions, our moral...

At long last--my profound and compelling argument for government subsidization of the arts.