What Have You Been Reading? Listening To? Watching?
I’ve been much enjoying David Black’s Harry Gilmour novels, about a young British submariner during World War II. It’s not my usual genre (I tend to read science fiction and …
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Remy: NoMargaritasville (Jimmy Buffet Parody)
Some people claim that there’s a woman to blame. But we know it’s the government’s fault. “Margaritaville” parody written and performed by Remy; music tracks, mastering, and background vocals by …
The Feds Are Still the Jackbooted Thugs We Were Warned About
Federal law-enforcement agents brutally enforcing the government’s will against a segment of the population on the outs with the current administration are “jack-booted government thugs,” the National Rifle Association (NRA) …
Laws Protecting Private Employees’ Speech and Political Activity Against Employer Retaliation: Focused on Political Opinions, Party Affiliation, or Electoral Activities
[This is a serialization, with slight updates, of my 2012 article on the subject; for the Introduction (which also discusses my ambivalence about such laws), see this post.] I talked earlier …
Knight Vision: Knight Foundation Host Sam Gill and I Talk About Free Speech
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO72xyaGwDs?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281] I much enjoyed doing this, and I hope you have fun watching it! ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce …
Today in Supreme Court History: July 27, 1929
7/27/1929: The Geneva Conventions are signed by United States. The Supreme Court would consider the Conventions in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006). The Roberts Court (2006) ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is …
Dumping Milk, Then and Now
In 1933, a coalition of Wisconsin dairy farmers protested the collapse of milk prices by intercepting shipments headed to market and dumping milk cans. The strikers hoped that reducing the …
“A Peaceful Demonstration Intensified”
Could be a new bit of terminology here. “You are being charged with an intensified peaceful demonstration, in the second degree. How do you plead?” Protesters in California set fire …
Laws Protecting Private Employees’ Speech and Political Activity Against Employer Retaliation: Covering a Wide Range of Speech
[This is a serialization, with slight updates, of my 2012 article on the subject; for the Introduction (which also discusses my ambivalence about such laws), see this post.] We now turn …
Today in Supreme Court History: July 26, 1892
7/26/1892: Justice George Shiras Jr. takes oath. Justice George Shiras ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil …