Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

There’s a reason the government can’t stop this column from being published. Actually, there’s a person who is responsible for the government being unable to stop this column from being published.

His name is Daniel Ellsberg. He died Friday at age 92, but his legacy lives on, a credit to him and an emblem of our democracy, still the envy of the world even in these embattled times.

Ellsberg will be f…