Chris Hammer

Chris Hammer is an attorney in New York City.

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Hearsay & Insinuation

J. Edgar Hoover, Sen. Joseph McCarthy, and Roy Cohn created a security state dependent on gossip and insinuation that persists today.

December 3, 2021

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Wheels within Wheels

Today, fantastic thinking and a sense of dispossession do not exists solely in the conspiracist’s mind; it has pervaded our polity.

November 13, 2019

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The Reasons for Our Rights

Constitutional issues—like guns or speech—are often seen as coming from opposite points of the ideological spectrum. But they may be more similar than we think.

January 30, 2020

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