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A 10th-anniversary celebration of ������ Law’s  (FOLCS) last fall featured a between legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin and Thane Rosenbaum, director of FOLCS and a distinguished fellow at the Law School. What appeals to Toobin about covering law-related subjects, he said, is “the endless newness of the law.”

FOLCS continued to draw an array of luminaries at the beginning of its second decade. In a of The Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe recalled visiting Wall Street 25 years after publishing his novel: “All of the great masters of the universe are now little clerks behind a bank of computers.” During , former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, reflecting on what he had learned in government, said, “It seems to me the best economic policymakers are always engaged in a kind of reflective equilibrium between the political and the economic aspects.”

Other discussions included famous NYPD whistleblower ; US Attorney ; actors , , and ; French intellectual ; and New York Giants Hall of Famer .

Posted September 2, 2016