Reason FreedomFest, a largely libertarian gathering in Las Vegas with a significant conservative presence, has been tacking in a noticeably Trumpian direction since the future president spoke there in 2015. So …
In Greensboro, N.C., Brittany Copeland and Arnold Johnson say a school bus driver forced their 6-year-old daughter Laylah to get off the bus at the wrong stop even though the …
This is the latest in a series of posts about The Mischief Rule. The following extract focuses on some of the implications of reconsidering the mischief rule. Since some readers …
I’m skeptical about the latest allegation about Brett Kavanaugh’s supposed misdeeds in college, published in the New York Times: We also uncovered a previously unreported story about Mr. Kavanaugh in his …
Country Music. PBS. Sunday, September 15, 8 p.m. PBS documentarian Ken Burns isn’t necessarily modern America’s most accurate historian or the most analytically insightful. He is unquestionably, however, the most irresistible storyteller. Whether …
U.S. drug policy is based on the premise that psychoactive substances cause addiction, which supposedly justifies using force to keep people away from them and to “treat” those who nevertheless …
Shadowlands: Fear and Freedom at the Oregon Standoff, by Anthony McCann, Bloomsbury, 448 pages, $30 On January 2, 2016, Ammon Bundy and a few dozen armed militiamen seized control of …
Say that you tell something in confidence to your spouse, and in a future criminal or civil case the spouse is asked to testify about that statement. Under American law, …
This is installment five in a series of posts about a new paper, The Mischief Rule. One question many readers have is whether the mischief rule is just purposivism. Indeed, …
One of the best things about the otherwise tedious Super Bowl broadcast earlier this year was the debut of a mildly amusing, medieval-themed Bud Light beer commercial that attacked rivals …