Adam Cohen

To be rejected on account of old age may or may not feel the same as being rejected on the basis of race or sex. But it is clearly unjust and dehumanizing, and the law should take it more seriously than it does. ”

Being unemployed - or working at minimum wage - is rough in the best of circumstances. ”

The gap between being a bad person and being a criminal is often wide. ”

With increased awareness should come greater caution about how confessions are used at trial - and a greater willingness to overturn convictions when it becomes clear that a confession was untrue. ”

Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings. ”

When locational information is collected, people should be given advance notice and a chance to opt out. Data should be erased as soon as its main purpose is met. ”

Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life. ”

Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life. ”

In the James Cameron blockbuster 'Avatar,' 3-D cinematography is the real star. The bugs and crawling creatures seem to slither into the theater seats. The floating mountains of the planet Pandora hover gloriously overhead. And the Na'Vi, Pandora's 10-foot-tall, blue-skinned natives, come convincingly to life. ”

The remarkable thing about 'Avatar' is the degree to which the technology is integral to the story. It is important to show Pandora and its Na'Vi natives in 3-D because 'Avatar' is fundamentally about the moral necessity of seeing other beings fully. ”