Wonderland Wonderland
It is exasperating listening to the news as we approach this most important election. The coverage is all about comparing the length of the candidate's sentences. How many big wo...
Sep 30, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
All Creatures Great and Small All Creatures Great and Small
It was an odd dream: The Bush twins were ten feet tall and peering in my window. They were snickering. "We had a hamster too..." they were saying, as though it were the merriest ...
Sep 16, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Economic Bad Boys Economic Bad Boys
When the "scrawny boy from Austria" delivered his peroration against faint-hearted "economic girlie men," it was an unusually seductive, even witty, appeal to a notion of free en...
Sep 2, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Lead Balloons Lead Balloons
I'm riding an elevator in downtown Boston. There is a sign warning of travel restrictions during the last week of July. A woman gets on. We both stare ahead as per elevator etiqu...
Jul 15, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Unnatural Acts Unnatural Acts
By now, it has become something of a media cliché to watch "fringe" protesters jumping up and down from the edges of G-8 conferences held at ever more remote locations.
Jun 24, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
To See or Not to See To See or Not to See
Boston's Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority recently announced a new policy of stopping people "randomly" to request identification from those whom police believe to be a...
Jun 10, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Slow Motion Slow Motion
The Justice Department recently announced its intention to reopen the Emmett Till case.
May 27, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
In Kind In Kind
As of this writing, seven in ten Americans want Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to remain at his post, a vote of confidence that exceeds that even for the President himself.
May 13, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
For Their Own Good For Their Own Good
One of my favorite little films is a satirical documentary titled Babakiueria.
Apr 29, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams
Unimagined Communities Unimagined Communities
This year is the tenth anniversary of the end of apartheid in South Africa, the fortieth anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the fiftieth anniversary of the Supre...
Apr 15, 2004 / Column / Patricia J. Williams