Lionel Nation

Lionel. The mononymous. Political atheist. Constitutional sentry. Haruspex. Polymath. Philologist. Societal docent. Polyhistor. Psychologist General. Paronomasiac. Black Belt in Etuaptmumk. Realpolitik high priest. Devout Constitutionalist with a rabid adherence to First Amendment guarantees and consecrated tropes. LOTUS (Lionel of the United States). Trial lawyer. Former prosecutor. The ineffable Jerry Wexler described Lionel thusly. “He wears the mantle of Lenny Bruce, with Lenny’s own tropisms: The Oblique, The Irreverent, The Tangential, The Concupiscent, The Polymorphous Perverse, The Arcane, The Numinous. And yet Lionel brings to the table his own savory: A love of the mother tongue and a gonzo vocabulary that...