Most liberal democracies don't try to figure out what the truth is.

If you're a prosecutor, and you believe the defendant is guilty, you only talk about ultimate truth, but not intermediate truth. If you're the defense attorney, you care deeply about intermediate truth, but you tend to neglect ultimate truth.

Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their own differences. The United States can play an important role as facilitator and guarantor.

I was critical of race-based affirmative action early on in my career and I've changed my mind. And I've publicly acknowledged that I was wrong.

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

It's every lawyer's dream to help shape the law, not just react to it.

I fear that the impact of university censorship and university denial of due process will be to mis-educate a generation of students away from core values of civil liberties and constitutional safeguards. Students who have been led to believe by university administrators and faculty that censorship and denial of due process are acceptable norms will be more susceptible to accepting those norms in their post-university lives. That would be a tragedy for America.