Some thoughts on what John Yoo will teach his students.Yoo's constitutional theories regarding presidential power raise some interesting jurisprudential and moral issues. If we assume Yoo isn't a moral monster, we have to assume he doesn't actually favor machine-gunning a village of civilians or crushing...
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What the hell? It wouldn't have been difficult to predict this, but the stupidity of Deborah Solomon interviewing John Yoo does indeed approach the density of a degenerate dwarf star..
Brad DeLong:Academic freedom is a powerful and important principle. But I do not believe it provides a shield for weathervanes. I do not believe it shields those whose work is.
To spare you valuable time that might be more usefully devoted to, say, the selfless nurturance of human progress, Louis Fisher reads John Yoo's unpublished thoughts on Thomas Jefferson and executive power. Given the enthusiasm that Bush's defenders have shown in comparing their hero to...
As Jack Balkin points out, for both "legal" and "political" reasons it's unlikely that any U.S. court will prosecute war crimes committed by members of the Bush administration. This circumstance.