Opinion Essays

King Trump on Trial, Project Syndicate (May 17, 2024);

Trump’s Enablers on the Supreme Court, Project Syndicate (April 29, 2024);

What Fundamentalist Christians See in Trump, Project Syndicate (Mar 7, 2024 );

Biden Begs the Question, Baltimore Sun (January 19, 2024); 

Do we have to think the unthinkable about a second Trump presidency?”, Baltimore Sun  (December 2023);

Will Trump Be on the Ballot?, Project Syndicate (December 2023);

Trump’s Hollow Free Speech Defense, Project Syndicate (August 2023); 

Patriots in Name Only, Project Syndicate (January 2023); 

Elon Musk’s Covert War on Free Speech,Project Syndicate (January 2022); 

America’s Dangerous Descent Into Violence,Project Syndicate (July 2022); 

“Trump’s Hollow Free-Speech Defense,” Project Syndicate (global op-ed platform) (August 14, 2023);

“Patriots in Name Only,”Project Syndicate (Jan. 25, 2023); 

“Elon Musk’s Covert War on Free Speech,” Project Syndicate (Oct

13, 2022); 

“Personhood and the great American rift.” NY Daily News (June 23, 2022); 

“Memo to Musk: Free Speech is not Absolute,” NY Daily News (April 26, 2022); 

“Democracy Under Siege in America,” (July 7, 2020); 

“Democracy’s Missing Meaning”, Project Syndicate (May 15, 2015); 

“The Visual Politics of Terror,” Project Syndicate (Sept. 23, 2014); 

“The Digital Trial” Project Syndicate (Oct. 12, 2011);

“Distorting the Law: Politics, Media, and the Litigation Crisis,” (review) New York Law Journal, (November 23, 2004);

“Does the public have the right to watch?”; (interview regarding public viewing of the Timothy McVeigh execution) Christian Science Monitor, (June 12, 2001); 

“The Ultimate Reality TV Show”; (discussing televising executions) Boston Globe, Sunday Focus Section, (April 1, 2001); 

“Legal storytelling & truth,” The New York Times, (September 7, 2000); 

“What declaring war on drugs really means,” The New York Times (November 25, 1996).