Killing Our Citizens Without Trial

In a New York Review of Books article, David Cole writes: Whatever one thinks about the merits of presidents ordering that citizens or noncitizens be killed by remote-controlled missiles, surely there is something fundamentally wrong with a democracy that allows its leader to do so in “secret,” without even demanding that he defend his actions in public.
 
    And he’s quite right. We abdicate our rights, and the obligations of our leaders, so we can debate whether Kim Kadashian should keep the ring, or not.