Trip Out with Timothy Leary’s Ex-Girlfriend in My Psychedelic Love Story
My Psychedelic Love Story. Showtime. Sunday, November 29, 9 p.m. “In order to use your head, you have to go out of your mind,” LSD guru Timothy Leary once told …
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Third Circuit Rejects Trump Campaign’s Appeal
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit roundly rejected the Trump campaign’s appeal in its effort to challenge the election results in Pennsylvania. Jude Stephanos Bibas wrote the …
Glenn Greenwald on Biden, Free Speech, and Leaving The Intercept
No journalist is more relentlessly iconoclastic than Glenn Greenwald, who shared a 2014 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Edward Snowden revelations. Though unapologetically progressive, the 53-year-old former lawyer …
Open for Business on Virtual Speaking Engagements
Like co-blogger Eugene Volokh, I am open for business when it comes to giving virtual talks on Zoom and other similar platforms. During the summer and fall of 2020, I …
Despite Election Wins, California GOP Needs a Makeover
Before you lash out at me for picking on the California GOP, please keep in mind that most of my writing over the past 22 years has chronicled the myriad …
Today in Supreme Court History: November 27, 1964
11/27/1964: WGCB carried a 15-minute broadcast by the Reverend Billy James Hargis as part of the “Christian Crusade” series. This broadcast gave rise to Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. Federal …
America on Trial
In the fifth century A.D., Pope Gelasius declared that Christians have dual citizenship under “two sovereigns,” one divine and one temporal, that must not be combined. In the 11th century, …
Brickbat: Evacuating from Vietnam
Facebook has already agreed to comply with a demand by the Vietnamese government to censor “anti-state” material. But the government wants the social media company to block even more material, …
Why exactly was New York’s COVID-19 regime not “neutral”?
I have now had some time to digest Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn v. Cuomo. Upon some reflection, the weakest part of the opinion is perhaps the most significant: why …
Renewing my speculation: A Resignation in Time, that Saved Nine
A few days after Justice Ginsburg passed away, I speculated that Chief Justice Roberts could let President Biden replace him to avoid Court packing. I am renewing this speculation. If Diocese …