Charles Koch and Brian Hooks: Believe in People
Over the past 50-plus years, Charles Koch grew his family business, Koch Industries, into one of the largest privately held companies in America. At the same time, he played a …
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Will Obama Torture Apologists Make a Triumphant Return to Joe Biden’s White House?
President-elect Joe Biden is being warned not to bring torture apologists who served under President Barack Obama into his administration. The Daily Beast reported this week that Biden was considering …
California AG’s Brief Claims “Hate Speech” Is Constitutionally Unprotected
From a brief filed by the California Attorney General’s office in Ogilvie v. Gordon, a case dealing with restrictions on personalized license plates (such as exclusions of “racially degrading term[s]”): There …
Quaking Quagmires
From the great torts scholar William Prosser, writing in 1953: The realm of the conflict of laws is a dismal swamp, filled with quaking quagmires, and inhabited by learned but eccentric …
Cops Who Beat and Killed an Innocent Man Are Not Entitled to Qualified Immunity, Appeals Court Rules. But the Cops Who Watched Are.
Two officers who beat and ultimately killed a schizophrenic man—who had been subdued and who had not committed a crime—are not entitled to qualified immunity and can thus be sued …
Penguin Random House Employees Broke Down in Tears at Thought of Publishing Jordan Peterson’s Next Book
On Monday, Penguin Random House announced it would publish a sequel to 12 Rules for Life, the bestselling self-help book by Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson. In response, several employees of …
Today in Supreme Court History: November 25, 1757
11/25/1757: Henry Brockholst Livingston’s birthday. He dissented in the property law classic, Pierson v. Post (NY 1805). Justice Henry Brockholst Livingston ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free …
Brickbat: Just a Training Issue
New Braunfels, Texas, police officer Kaleb Meyer’s bodycam shows him pull his gun almost immediately after exiting his vehicle back in January. He had just pulled Clarence Crawford over for …
Be Grateful for Capitalism This Thanksgiving
I’m thankful. Yes, we’ve got the pandemic, lockdowns, a worsening deficit, etc. But we still live in a relatively free country at the most prosperous time in human history. The …
How to Beat Legalized Larceny
Six months after the Drug Enforcement Administration stole $43,000 from Stacy Jones at a North Carolina airport, her lawyer, Dan Alban, received a letter from the aptly named Douglas Kash, …