Most law schools require applicants to write an essay about why they want to be a lawyer and most applicants scribble away about justice and the rule of law elevating human society from the swamps of savagery. If their sentiments are sufficiently lofty, the applicants are accepted into law school and the professors begin to […]

I was in Montreal last weekend; it was my first visit in many years. I found a city still half-buried in ice from last month’s storm. Everywhere, streets and sidewalks carried glaciers four to six inches thick. Some homeowners were attacking with sledgehammers and chisels, cutting the ice into blocks and stacking them against the […]