Obama

November 12, 2012

The Future Is Creepy

I had the chance today to be at a talk by two of the members of the legal “brain-trust” of President Obama’s re-election campaign, NYU’s professors Rick Pildes and Sam Issacharoff. (I have to brag: it was one of those moments that make NYU the best law school in the world.) Yet although they spoke Continue reading

Constitutional law, Law of Democracy, New Technologies, Political philosophy

data, elections, Obama, privacy, voting
May 18, 2012

Rights and Disagreement

Charles Krauthammer has an interesting op-ed in the Washington Post discussing President Obama’s endorsement of same-sex marriage, and accusing him of taking an intellectually incoherent approach to this matter. Mr. Obama has said that marriage – including of the same-sex variety – is a right; he has also said that the issue of allowing same-sex Continue reading

Constitutional Theory, Political philosophy

Obama, rights, same-sex marriage