Brickbat: A Modern Marcel Duchamp
One Mason, Michigan, resident seems a bit skeptical about absentee voting. The homeowner, who wasn’t identified by local media, placed a toilet on his or her front lawn with a …
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RBG’s Daughter: Justice Ginsburg did not “anticipate” that Republicans would block Garland
Emily Bazelon published a profile in the New York Times Magazine about Justice Ginsburg. There were only a few new tidbits–specifically, Bazelon talked to Justice Ginsburg’s daughter, Jane. First, we learn that …
USC Faculty Reaction to the Great USC Chinese Homonym Panic
From ‘Scared to Death to Teach’: Internal Report Cites ‘Chilling Effect’ (Chronicle of Higher Education, Tom Bartlett): An anonymous survey of 105 professors at the University of Southern California’s Marshall …
Our SCOTUS Wars Were a Long Time Coming
“We have the Senate,” President Donald Trump said Monday morning, with we meaning the GOP. And that means, in contrast with Barack Obama’s stymied 2016 attempt to fill a Supreme …
America’s Debt Will be Twice the Size of the Economy by 2050
If you’re getting tired of unrelentingly bad news about the national debt—well, I have some terrible news. Today the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a 30-year budget projection. By 2050, …
1619 Project Author Nikole Hannah-Jones Now Says She Never Implied That Year Was America’s True Founding
The 1619 Project is The New York Times‘ Pulitzer-winning effort to put racism and slavery at the center of the conversation about American history. The newspaper published a series of …
Classes #10: Executive Power I and Easements I
Class 10: The Executive Power II Hirabayashi v. United States (572-582) Korematsu v. United States (582-592) Ex Part Endo (592-597) Class 10: Easements I Creation of Easements: Willard v. First …
Poetry Monday!: “Harmonie du soir” by Charles Baudelaire (French)
Note: here’s a site with a number of English translations of this poem. Here’s a link to the rest of my playlist. ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine …
The Iranian Coup that Led to 67 Years of Reckless Intervention
If you want to understand the past 70 years of U.S. foreign policy, look to the 1953 CIA- and MI6-backed coup in Iran that removed Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and …
The President’s and Senate’s Duties When a Supreme Court Vacancy Arises During an Election Year
A couple of dozen progressive constitutional law professors, including several very prominent ones, have written a letter that, taken seriously, means that President Trump has a constitutional duty to nominate …