In a little over three weeks, I’ll be setting off on a trip through Eastern Europe, and through history. Our oldest son, Matt, and I will meet in Warsaw with…

This week’s big Supreme Court rulings demand some attention, and did some remarkable things: — Interpreting the Second Amendment for the first time in 1939, the Justices voted 5-4 that…

Well, I missed it by three days, too. June 21 is the anniversary of the ratification of the Constitution! On that date in 1788, the New Hamphshire Convention ratified the…

In preparation for a panel I’m doing tomorrow at the First Amendment Center at the Newseum here in Washington, I just read Liberty’s Blueprint: How Madison and Jefferson Wrote the…

On Saturday, Washington Independent Writers gave its first annual Washington Writing Prize to . . . The Summer of 1787, by moi. They were nice enough to say that the…

The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Boumediene v. Bush recognizing the right of detainees in Guantanamo to press habeas corpus petitions to their continued detention, is a huge moment in…

Paul Krugman in the New York Times has a fascinating/appalling treatment of the future of the book. As in, not much of a future. His message, that the Kindle e-book-reader…

Some commentators are suggesting that Barack Obama’s apparent winning of the presidential nomination is the biggest upset ever in winning a nomination. Pish posh. Did he basically come out of…

OK, it’s getting personal now, this shrinking of the media, this revolution in our world of writers and readers. Last week I tried to get in touch with the travel…

Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, gave an interview with the Washington Post on June 5 in which he said: “[T]here will be no media consumption left in 10 years that…