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Big issues instead of bumper stickers.

Even tyrants know that civilized society needs law.

The volatile mix of poverty and fundamentalism.

Dershowitz talks of the need for a Continuum of Civilianality.

Alan Dershowitz on regulating beatings and waterboarding.

Can we hold people? And for how long can we hold them? And under what circumstances can we hold them because we strongly suspect that they are planning to do […]

Dershowitz wishes academics would go back to first principles.

Everybody should be subject to one standard, Alan Dershowitz says.

Homo sapiens are more used to living without the law than with the law.

Alan Dershowitz discusses growing up Jewish in America during the period of the second World War.

Give people more of a stake in the success of the global economy.

Jump ahead fifty years, then ask.

Things would look a lot rosier if people with big ideas went into politics.

The myth of the hereafter, Alan Dershowitz says, is one of the worst ideas humans have ever created.

Everything needs a jurisprudence.

A Jewish boy with the head of Webster and a head of clay.

Dershowitz finds his inspiration anywhere and everywhere he can.

Dershowitz hopes he has filled in some jurisprudential black holes in his career.

Billy Collins reads his poem, “Constellations.”

Billy Collins reads his poem, “Questions About Angels.”

A musician of sorts.

First, a nice car, then we think of others.

Start with tiny gestures.

America needs to find a new way of thinking.

We should be over war by now.

One’s faith can survive a split between theology and iconography.

The poet is just as responsible for a small audience.

Coleridge’s “Conversation” poems inspire much of Collins’ work.

Poetry is just a forum for the ego.

Asking, what does the poem mean? kills the poem, Collins says.