I neglected to mention that his co-author for the WSJ article was Elizabeth Price Foley. She is also a legal scholar and a advocate for individual freedom, she comes to her conclusions from a slightly different direction, see her book, “Liberty for All: Reclaiming Individual Privacy in a New Era of Public Morality”.
Charles Fried, it appears that he is a bit combative, in spite of any rational reasoned questions thrown at him.