ABSTRACT

I begin with two quotes, one from fiction and one which is used so often by defenders and opponents that it has almost achieved fictional status:

The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves. (Cassius to Brutus, Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar

(Act I, Scene ii, 139-40))

Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice … Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.