When the government stomps on some once-inviolable right, it may be carrying out the next step in a concerted plan, or it may just be stumbling clumsily. The proper response in these moments is not to wax hysterical, but instead to draw clear moral lines. That is especially true for powerful people with the ability to make themselves heard.

Jeff Bezos seemed to get a special delivery at his $165 million home in Beverly Hills: a UFO! The odd, futuristic structure sits on the grounds near the cactus garden. Bezos, 61, has yet to reveal the contents of the shiny installation.

After spending decades in the Seattle area, Jeff Bezos sold his Hunts Point mansion on Lake Washington for $63 million — the highest sale on record — and moved east with his new wife, Lauren Sánchez Bezos. The newlyweds settled on Miami’s Biscayne ...