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James Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy, and was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including...
The Professor, The Cop And The President
On July 23, Henry Louis Gates—regarded at Harvard as America’s most eminent African-American academic—was cuffed and locked up for disorderly conduct by a Cambridge policeman named James Crowley.
The Power Of Protocol
The now infamous Cambridge, Mass., incident that started when Sgt. James Crowley investigated a report of a possible break-in at the home of Henry Louis Gates, the well-known African-American Harvard professor, has dominated this past week's news...
Questions For Apple
The House Judiciary Committee at 1:00 pm is holding a hearing at which FBI Director James Comey and Apple General Counsel Bruce Sewell will both testify on going dark matters. Here's the live video.
The Libertarian: “Race, Crime, And Policing”
Is the Ferguson effect impeding the work of law enforcement?
Columbia Law School Offers Students A Fainting Couch
The Daily Caller reports that Columbia University Law School has agreed to postpone final exams for students traumatized by the recent grand jury non-indictments in Ferguson, Missouri, and New York City. The DC also reports that students at Harvard and Georgetown law schools would like the same consideration from their institutions of higher learning.
A Teacher of Character
James Q. Wilson was a modest man of outsize achievements—a professor and a lifelong student of human nature. By Harvey C. Mansfield.
From Emmitt Till to Skip Gates
If the Henry Louis Gates imbroglio makes anything clear it is that, in 2009, the mere implication of racial profiling in the arrest of a black professor...
Honesty for Hire
A few countries have found a way to stop graft and foster political stability: hire foreigners to collect their revenue. By Kris James Mitchener and Noel Maurer.
Explaining 1968
Was it a revolution? No. More like a baby-boomer coming-out party— with a rough morning after. By Niall Ferguson.
When War Must Be the Answer
The case for force
The Beat Generation
Community policing at its best.
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