Ciceronianus; causidicus

Once judicial giants roamed our Great Republic.  John Marshall, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Learned Hand (such a fine name for a judge) and ...

  The answer to the question posed in the title to this post may already be clear.  If being gullible, incoherent, irrational, shallow, emot...

  Lying is something at which politicians have always excelled.  But the falsehoods now generated by the political class of the nation (espe...

  This is supposedly the question of the man we call Pontius Pilate:  Quid est Veritas?  According to Francis Bacon "jesting Pilate...

  We live, if we continue living, in a time when all those we encounter in politics, in the arts, in the media (including social media) are ...