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. Adam Cohen Read Quote
A Reagan appointee, Justice Kennedy is no liberal, as he has shown on issues from affirmative action to corporate campaign spending. But he has repeatedly sided with gay litigants before the court. Adam Cohen Read Quote
Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior. Adam Cohen Read Quote
If the Supreme Court rules that rent control is an unconstitutional taking of property, it would put all sorts of zoning rules in danger. Adam Cohen Read Quote
An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world’s leading democracy. Adam Cohen Read Quote
When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world. Adam Cohen Read Quote
Being unemployed – or working at minimum wage – is rough in the best of circumstances. Adam Cohen Read Quote
Vampires are sleek demons for good times. They suavely leech off society – like investment bankers who plunder outsize shares of deals for themselves or rapacious fund managers. Adam Cohen Read Quote
