Brickbat: Fostering Sedition
The San Diego police department has issued 82 citations for seditious language since 2013. But after an investigation by local media, the police department has ordered officers not to enforce a …
Reason
Apparently, I “Owe” a “Debt” “to African-Americans”
Hans Bader (Liberty Unyielding) writes: Reparations took a step closer to becoming a reality. California’s state senate just voted 33-to-3 to create a reparations commission. The commission will “study the …
Kentucky AG: Government Can’t Shut Down In-Person Teaching at Religious Schools
From a Kentucky Attorney General opinion released on Aug. 19, but just posted on Westlaw: Subject: Whether, during the current state of emergency caused by the spread of the novel …
Today in Supreme Court History: August 30, 1967
8/30/1967: Justice Thurgood Marshall takes the oath. Justice Thurgood Marshall ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil …
Should Universities Recommend (or Demand) Epithet Filtering on Students’ and Professors’ Internet Devices?
Some students, faculty, and administrators have argued that even hearing racial epithets quoted is traumatic or at least highly offensive to students, and that decent people therefore should not quote …
The Controversy Over Quoting Racial Epithets, Now at UC Irvine School of Law
You can read the details of the UCI controversy in this Reddit post and this Above The Law post, but here’s the heart of the matter. Prof. Carrie Menkel-Meadow—a distinguished …
Ideology, Religion, and Respect
My former student Carolyn Homer has written a characteristically thoughtful and passionate post arguing that Trumpism is akin to a religion. Others have argued that Wokeness is essentially a religious …
Judge Rules Vegan ‘Butter’ Can Be Labeled as ‘Vegan Butter’
Last week, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg of California’s Northern District Court ruled Miyoko’s Creamery, maker of a vegan butter, may use the word “butter” to describe its, well, vegan …
Today in Supreme Court History: August 29, 1967
8/29/1967: Justice Neil Gorsuch’s birthday. Justice Neil Gorsuch ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil liberties, …
N.Y. Times Op-Ed on U.S. v. Cruikshank
William Briggs and Jon Krakauer wrote an sobering Op-Ed about the tragedy that gave rise to U.S. v. Cruikshank. Here is an excerpt: The Colfax massacre was ghastly, and so was its aftermath. …