To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable
Sick People
BY SUSAN ESTRICH I got my first threat when I was a young law professor. The campus newspaper reported that in teaching criminal law to first-year students, I was not only including rape in the curriculum [unheard of at the time], but was actually telling students of my own experience in the criminal justice system […]
Whipping Health Care Reform, In A Nice Way
BY FROMA HARROP Following the attack against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and bystanders, Republicans put off action to scuttle the Democrats’ health care reforms. The GOP House leadership is now back, determined to repeal a law that gives Americans health care security while cutting budget deficits – but in a nice way. “We can and should […]
Why Keep ‘Politics’ Out Of It?
BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN Wednesday night’s memorial in the McKale Center at the University of Arizona did strike me as slightly strange, like an Irish wake that had prematurely transitioned into the later boisterous phase. The offbeat tone was established from the get go by Carlos Gonzalez, an associate prof at AU, who delivered us from […]
Blood Libel
BY SUSAN ESTRICH Alan Dershowitz isn’t offended. He says it’s OK for Sarah Palin to invoke one of the most anti-Semitic images of our time in attacking those who have been critical of her putting crosshairs over the name of the congresswoman who was later shot. “There is nothing improper and certainly nothing anti-Semitic in […]
How We Enable Crimes Of Insanity
BY JOE CONASON The deranged expression on the face of Jared Lee Loughner in the mug shot released by the police – taken within hours after he allegedly killed six innocent people and wounded 14 more, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords – suggests that we may never fully understand whatever illness afflicts him. The law requires […]
