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I'm as vicious a critic of cigarettes as there is - my father, who smoked four packs of Camels a day, befouled our small Brooklyn apartment (as well as his lungs and heart) and died of a massive heart attack two months before my college graduation...
Last September, Harvey wrote in The Free For All about Star Simpson -- the MIT student who was arrested at Logan Airport for wearing a (prank) sweatshirt displaying a working circuit board connected to a battery -- and predicted that "there is no...
New York Governor David
Paterson signed into law yesterday the “Libel Terrorism Protection Act,”
according to the New York Sun .
This bill, for which Harvey and his
colleague Samuel A. Abady have lobbied in the Boston Globe and the New York Post ,
is...
By Harvey Silverglate It’s unlikely that the pooh-bahs at the Bush Administration’s Department of Justice (DOJ) read any civil liberties column or blog, let alone The Free For All. But I can’t help but think that somehow this blog launched an idea when...
By Wendy Kaminer One of the most expansive, flexible, and unreviewable appropriations of presidential power in the war on terror is also one of most obscure. It’s a federal blacklisting scheme that gives the executive branch the power to designate virtually...
By Harvey Silverglate Last Friday, I wrote in this space that there are ample grounds for launching ethics investigations against the Bush Administration lawyers who wrote formal opinions authorizing various “coercive interrogation” techniques that long...
The New York Times reported this morning that its Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author, James Risen, was subpoenaed by a federal grand jury sitting in Alexandria, Virginia, which seeks the reporter’s sources for a chapter of his 2006 book, State...
By Harvey Silverglate Sometimes, as Sigmund Freud put it, a cigar is just a cigar. And, likewise, sometimes words in the Constitution actually mean what they say. Much brainpower, however, has been expended trying to argue that the First Amendment, which...
