There Is No Defense for Looting
National Public Radio’s interview last month with Vicky Osterweil, author of a new book called “In Defense of Looting,” generated so much pushback that the network had to add a clarification …
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Review: Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies
Looking back on the cinematic sexy-wars of the last century from the promised land of total pornography we inhabit today must be a little puzzling for young cinephiles. Was there …
Lose Yo Job
If the movement against abusive policing has an anthem, it’s “Lose Yo Job,” a rap spontaneously composed by Johnniqua Charles as she was detained outside a strip club in South …
Brickbat: No Room at the Inn
The Los Angeles County Public Works Department has notified Grace Community Church it is terminating a lease for a parking lot the church has held since 1975. Church leaders say this …
The Second Amendment and People Who Had Been Involuntarily Committed 20 Years Ago
From Judge Patrick Bumatay’s dissent from denial of rehearing en banc today in Mai v. U.S. (9th Cir.), joined on this point by Judge Vandyke; you can ready the contrary …
After 8-Hour Meeting, Divided Texas Bar Refers ABA Model Rule 8.4(g) to Committee
Today, the Texas Bar had an eight-hour marathon meeting. One of the key issues was whether to refer ABA Model Rule 8.4(g) to the Discipline and Client Attorney Assistance Program …
Younger Abstention after Trump v. Vance
Last summer, in Trump v. Vance, the Supreme Court held that a sitting President potentially must answer a state criminal subpoena. But along the way to the Supreme Court, the …
A Nebraska County Took His $25,000 Property To Settle a $986 Tax Debt. Now the U.S. Supreme Court Could Get Involved.
Walter Barnette knew he owed property taxes to the Nebraska county where he lived, but he didn’t know that his own land had been sold out from under him until …
USC Marshall Business School Faculty Council E-Mail to Colleagues About the Greg Patton Matter
A reader passed this along, and I believe it is authentic; I forward it because our readers seem interested in the controversy (see also this post) and because it may be …
Australia’s Confused Tech Regulators Are Cracking Down on Google for Using Links
Economists have long warned that a great deal of regulation that is supposedly in the public interest acts in practice as a transfer of wealth from one private interest to …