The President and the Prosecutor: Three Views on Politics and Personal Life

The real scandal in Washington is not Clinton’s sex life, but the government’s ability to pry into it. The real threat to the republic is not the lack of “character” in the Oval Office, but the erosion of privacy rights for all Americans. The real crisis arises not from the president’s supposed misconduct—which is little more than a cloud of rumors and allegations—but from the growing tendency to confuse authority with authoritarianism. Lamentations about moral decline, understa...