Epstein Secrets

4.2.12 WC: 191694 Mr. DERSHOWITZ. It seems to me you have an interest but no right...I can understand how you would be offended by that. But one of the prices of living in a complex

off wrote a long front-page analysis of the Village Voice. Hentoff warned his readers of the consequences of a government victory in the Reems case. Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor and one of the nation’s preeminent constitutional lawyers, has never been known as an apocalyptic civil libertarian.

apocalyptic civil libertarian. Accordingly, when Professor Dershowitz speaks of the recent criminal convictions in a po

ences of a government victory in the Reems case. Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor and on

l approach and so we exchanged ideas and drafts. The difficulty of defending an absolutist view was well illustrated by an exchange between Justice Potter Stewart and Professor Bickel. Stewart asked Bickel about “a hypothetical case:” “Let us assume that when the members of the Court go back and open up this s

d Atoms. He is the author of FAB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Design

minimum, it is becoming rapidly difficult to hide behind vague intuition for ethical decisions—“I know it when I see it” (U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, 1964) or the “wisdom of repugnance” (aka “yuck factor,” Leon Kass, 1997), or vague appeals to “common sense.” As we have to deal with minds alien to

d Atoms. He is the author of FAB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Design

minimum, it is becoming rapidly difficult to hide behind vague intuition for ethical decisions—“I know it when I see it” (U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, 1964) or the “wisdom of repugnance” (aka “yuck factor,” Leon Kass, 1997), or vague appeals to “common sense.” As we have to deal with minds alien to