

A Defense of the Defendant
Introduction (trust me, this is the kind of introduction you should actually read) Before I begin, I must address my title. Those of you bored enough to be well-versed in my previous writing might notice that it is quite similar to a piece I published last year entitled “A Defense of Satire.” This is intentional, and what I am setting out to do for the Defendant as a whole in this piece is quite similar to what I attempted for our satire column in that piece. Mine is not the