Legal Scholar Charles Fried Dies at 88
Janet Knott/The Boston Globe via Getty ImagesCharles Fried, a lawyer who served as the United States solicitor general under Ronald Reagan, has died at the age of 88. His passing on Tuesday was announced by Harvard Law School, where he taught for nearly 60 years. Fried was a lauded conservative legal scholar who argued for Roe v. Wade to be overturned, before pivoting later in life to defend several progressive causes. In 2021, Fried wrote an opinion column for The New York Times in which he sai