A biography for Adam Cohenhasn’t been written yet.
“Anti-New Deal rhetoric has never disappeared from American political life.”
“A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.”
“The Senate should refuse to confirm nominees who do not take Congressional power seriously.”
“In a perfect world, we would have put users in control of their information when the Internet was first created.”
“For technology companies, information about what people do online is extremely valuable - it can be used to sell targeted advertising or sold to data clearinghouses.”
“The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.”
“If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger.”
“Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.”
“As much as possible, location-specific information should not be collected in the first place, or not in personally identifiable form.”
“It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.”
“Too often, animal-rights supporters seem to care about animals to the exclusion of people.”
“State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.”
“It is not hard to see why the FBI wants wiretapping backdoors. It would certainly make its job easier. But rejiggering the Internet so government can conveniently monitor everything we say and do online is too high a price to pay for making law enforcement more efficient.”
“A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.”
“If we are going to have self-driving cars, the technical specifications should be quite precise.”
“The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is the major achievement of President Obama's first term.”
“It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.”
“Set in the advertising world of the 1960s, 'Mad Men' is stunning to look at - a Camelot-era parade of smartly dressed professionals lounging around on midcentury modern furniture.”
“There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: always go on a rainy day so you can see how badly the roofs leak.”
“One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.”