Posner, Richard A

Argues that the 9/11 Commission's analysis was superficial and its organizational proposals unsound, and explains how the analysis led to the ineffectual Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004.

Examines America's efforts to reform and restructure its intelligence infrastructure, maintaining that these reforms have threatened the civil rights and liberties of the American people.

Explores plagiarism, discussing what it is, why it happens, how it is detected, and what punishment plagiarists should receive.

Examines the year-long political, legal, constitutional, and cultural struggle that began when President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky became public, and discusses what the author sees as the failure of the judiciary, the political establishment, the Congress, the legal profession, and the academic community to cope with the ordeal.