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Times Opinion writers discuss the news on “Matter of Opinion,” a new podcast.

In 2005, Navasky won the George K. Polk Book Award for “A Matter of Opinion,” a memoir and a passionate defense of free expression.

Either way, to subject the lives and livelihoods of these people to the will of the majority, and to determine their rights based on the strength of their get-out-the-vote efforts, is to reduce their humanity to a mere matter of opinion—a legally binding opinion.

That is a matter of opinion, a matter which the Administration is doubtless willing to let go undecided in the hope that there will be no default, in the meantime justifying its action on the ground that signing the agreement was the only way of getting its money.

To all this, Favreau lamely replied that it was a matter of opinion�a mere statement by Justice Dorion that, "had he been in my place, he would have exercised his discretion in a different fashion."