Elections Can’t Cure a Sick Political Culture
With November 2020 looming, Americans look forward to the end of a seemingly permanent election campaign and perhaps some reduction in the raging fever of national tensions that ail the …
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Utah Legislator: If You Don’t Want to Be Attacked by Police Dogs, ‘Stay Home’
After body camera footage showed that a Salt Lake City police officer had sicced a dog on a cooperative suspect, an internal audit revealed what Mayor Erin Mendenhall described as …
A Look at America’s Most Corrupt Police
If there’s a worst-case scenario for police corruption, it would look a lot like the tale told in I Got A Monster: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Corrupt …
California’s Proposition 22 Would Save Jobs and Help Consumers. Legislators Won’t Listen.
A California appeals court ruled last week that Uber and Lyft must classify their drivers as employees instead of contractors, intensifying the pressure to pass a ballot measure that would …
Milton Friedman’s Free to Choose Proved Capitalism Is Superior to Socialism
Milton Friedman’s documentary series Free To Choose first aired on PBS 40 years ago. It was an unapologetic defense of why capitalism was both morally and pragmatically superior to socialism. …
Mark Meadows: ‘We’re Not Going To Control the Pandemic’
With just over a week to go until Election Day, is the Trump administration signaling its surrender to COVID-19? “We’re not going to control the pandemic,” White House Chief of Staff …
Originalism and Birthright Citizenship
Thanks to Eugene and the Volokh Conspiracy for inviting me to guest blog about my article Originalism and Birthright Citizenship (forthcoming in the Georgetown Law Journal). The article investigates the …
Today in Supreme Court History: October 26, 1774
10/26/1774: First Continental Congress ends its first session in Philadelphia. ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil …
This Judge Is Wrong About Economic Liberty and the Constitution
In his May dissent in Ladd v. Real Estate Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice David Wecht berated his colleagues for letting a legal challenge proceed …
Brickbat: Genghis Who?
The Château des ducs de Bretagne museum in France has postponed an exhibit on Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire, citing what it says is censorship by the Chinese government. …