“The Magna Carta, signed in 1215, provided the basic groundwork for constitutional law as we know it.” Fair enough, I muttered inwardly, the bellowing voice from the other end of the car summoning my attention. I picked up a few more snippets, some ramblings about habius corpus. Then something about Euclid? He was holding court, […]

It was almost five in the afternoon on an unusually warm fall day, when I was lugging my Trader Joe’s bag down the street to our Cobble Hill apartment. Having just seen about six Obama supporters, festooned in their most clever urban political garb, my own measly pin barely making the cut, I grinned while […]

In 1979, I was three years old. Carter was President, the winters were snowier and New York City was a magical land just over the GW Bridge. But it wasn’t Disneyland. By Thanksgiving eve of 1980, I was off to my second annual viewing of Macy’s finest helium heroines as they rose to their glory […]