Leo Kuper was a UCLA professor of sociology and former associate of Nelson Mandela when they were both young men fighting apartheid, and he is the one responsible for my belief that the courts are an instrument of social change. In Kuper’s view the courts were not only an instrument of change, they were an…

Some private companies have apparently been asking prospective employees for their password to Facebook and other social media. It’s one thing to scan Facebook et al for any possible information, which many corporations do. Facebook is a quasi public site. When we post there, we know it shall be seen by friends and strangers alike,…

Staff Sgt Robert Bales has been charged. He will no doubt be convicted if not of premeditated murder, of something. If his life is spared, he can no doubt count of spending the rest of his life in prison. We don’t yet have a full account of what happened, and some of it may never…