“When we think of human-rights problems, most of us imagine arbitrary arrests, political repression, religious persecution, torture, show trials, censorship, and the like. In America, we don’t often have those kinds of problems. Even the current controversy over an Islamic center near ground zero isn’t about the right to build there; it’s about the wisdom of doing so. All of which made it surprising to learn from the Obama State Department that America does indeed have human-rights problems.” (09/01/10)