We often try to make sense of the world, particularly those parts of the world that are unfamiliar, by comparing them to the things more familiar, things we know something about. We say something is like something else, someone reminds us of someone else, that situation is not unlike one we have seen before in certain relevant respects.
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The news is horrifying, at once completely unexpected and entirely expected. It is a report of yet another human rights abuse, one of now so many that we are lost in the count of all the tortures, the mass killings, the human degradations, the endless cruelties.
Read MoreA friend of mine, a mathematician, once bet me that, in an upcoming legal argument in a court of appeals, I could not somehow work in the term ‘verisimilitudinous’. As good as he was at math, my friend had a very imperfect understanding of legal argument or that, at appellate arguments
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We watch the Supreme Court Justices as through a fog, a distant one at that, the figures moving in various directions irregularly and indistinctly, in a blur, occasionally adrift and astray but eventually finding their way back together, if not always in the place they started and sometimes not even realizing they have moved.
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What are we to make of the argument that any requirement or even pressure to wear masks in the face of the Covid pandemic, a measure we are assured will save thousands of lives, is an impermissible intrusion on personal liberty?
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