Farewell to privacy: Lindsay Graham unveils a bill that would make encryption useless
The bill "[mis]understands how encryption works. You can't create a backdoor just for 'good guys,'" one expert says
Why we need trolls: Even offensive clowns like Milo Yiannopoulos can be good for the left
Published: Salon (September 22, 2016)
Breitbart columnist Milo Yiannopoulos is perhaps the most famous troll in the world right now, in large part because he was banned from Twitter last month and because the head of Breitbart News is now the CEO of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. This, of course, makes it all the more disappointing that Yiannopoulos repeatedly flaked on me when I tried to interview him for this article.
The troubling and counterproductive trend of liberals policing free speech: We cannot silence those we disagree with
Published: Salon (August 5, 2016)
co-authored with Mark Schierbecker
When Donald Trump was asked last November to give his opinion on the student-led protests at the University of Missouri, he called them “disgusting,” adding to Fox Business News that “I think the two people that resigned are weak, ineffective people.
The Significance of Mike Pence
Published: The Good Men Project (July 16, 2016)
As The New York Times recently reported, there are an awful lot of social issues in which Donald Trump doesn’t now or didn’t in the past line up with his new vice presidential running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence. These range from abortion and gay rights to whether smoking kills people.... Read Original Article
Jews have a special responsibility to fight Donald Trump
Published: Quartz (July 9, 2016)
Donald Trump’s anti-Semitic tweet—I’m sorry, his allegedly anti-Semitic tweet—is still in the news in the US, and with good reason. The presumptive Republican nominee has repeatedly refused to apologize for linking Hillary Clinton, corruption and Judaism all in one ill-advised meme. Meanwhile, his Jewish son-in-law Jared Kushner is being publicly pressured by one of his employees at the New York Observer (which he owns) to denounce Trump’s actions.... Read Original Article
America has had a tyrant like Trump before: We fought a revolution to get rid of him
Published: Salon (July 4, 2016)
As America celebrates its 240th anniversary, the Donald Trump campaign confronts us with the vivid possibility that our democracy could look vastly different if he’s elected.
No, I’m not implying that Trump is another Adolf Hitler. You don’t need to be a latter-day Fuehrer to hold positions antithetical to the spirit of the Declaration of Independence.... Read Original Article