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Eric Posner

Eric Posner is Kirkland Ellis Professor Law at the University of Chicago. He is co-author of Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts.

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To the contemporary observer, the 9/11 attacks are significant because they reveal the methods and goals of the followers of a radical strain of Islam. Public debate has focused on the proper...
Eric Posner

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