We hear a lot about crime and malfeasance. We hear a lot less about punishment.

There was a story about President Eliot of Harvard. When asked what his primary task was, he answered nonchalantly, “To instill fear in the faculty.” While I did not fully appreciate his answer when I first heard it, I think that I am coming around to the former Ivy League president’s way of thinking.

Much of the news, if one still wants to follow the same, has to do with criminality. Whether it be the burgeoning theft of public funds in Minnesota or new data on apparent election fraud in 2020, we are constantly being presented with potential acts of illegality. And while I appreciate that it is far easier to accuse and condemn in the press than it is to build a solid case for a courtroom, there seem to be many people and organizations that simply slide through their criminal behavior, without any sign of being held accountable in the offing.

For example:

I am not a lawyer and never even played one on TV. I am sure that putting together an airtight case in any of........

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