ALAN DERSHOWITZ

ALAN DERSHOWITZ

New York, New York
Alan Dershowitz is a Contributor of The New York Sun.

Mr. Dershowitz is professor emeritus at Harvard Law School. He has written 52…

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Opinion (Columnists)

Ivy League Anti-Israel Protests Could Prove More Dangerous Than January 6 or Charlottesville

The First Amendment protects the right to say idiotic things, but the marketplace of ideas also requires that speakers be held accountable for the words they speak, especially if they are hateful ones.

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Opinion (Columnists)

Why Is Biden Stopping Israel From Attacking Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program ?

As a matter of law, Israel is entitled to respond to this act of war by overwhelming, even disproportionate, force against Iranian military targets.

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Opinion (Other)

Golden Age of American Jewry May Be Ending, but the Open, Free Market Economy Beckons

The notion that Jews are being ‘overrepresented’ and taking the rightful places of larger minority groups echoes the argument made in tsarist Russia and other nations that imposed the notorious ‘numerus clausus.’

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Opinion (Columnists)

‘Free Speech for Me but Not for Thee’ as Firefighters and a Biden Critic Face Censorship for Dissenting

It may be rude to boo a guest speaker, but rude boos are as protected by the first amendment as polite claps. In America, we do not hunt down dissenters. We protect their right to dissent.

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Opinion (Columnists)

Whatever Mayorkas Did or Didn’t Do, He Committed No Impeachable Offenses

To the contrary, his impeachment is based on the kind of policy and partisan differences that were implicitly rejected by the framers of the Constitution.

AP/Jose Luis Magana
Opinion (Columnists)

Steering a Course Toward the Center Is the Path to Victory in November — Despite the Temptation, for Biden and Trump, To Please Extremists in Their Parties

We are a centrist country that has always eschewed extremes. The vast majority of Americans, whether Democrat or Republican, regard themselves as moderates.

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