Sublime

À Battery Park chaque samedi après-midi, je dégustais la tribune hebdomadaire du professeur Lessig. Jeune avocat spécialiste de droit d’auteur, il était la caution morale de l’Internet. Son étoile du Berger. En pleine extase capitaliste, il s’acharnait dans le rôle du rabat-joie de service. Dès 1997, dans un article ravageur « Code is law », il ava

As Jake Arvey, the man behind Adlai Stevenson’s political career, defined politics: “politics is the art of putting people under obligation to you.”

In Jefferson’s time, such opposition to government per se—such fierce frontier individualism—might have made Stevenson a real democrat; in the more complicated mid-twentieth century, his reluctance to make use of the powers of his office allowed the continuation of the vacuum in Texas government in which special interest groups—the Texas oilmen, na

The cold divisive logic of the RCO impoverishes us, all of us, and brings us closer to that primitive state that the political philosopher Thomas Hobbes called “the war of every man against every man.”