The Elephant in the Room for the Diploma Privilege Debate
State Supreme Courts continue to divide about how to handle the bar exam. Some states still plan to hold in-person exams. Other states plan to hold a remote, online exam. …
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Joe Biden’s $2 Trillion Green New Deal Is Just a Worn-Out Democratic Jobs Program
“There’s no more consequential challenge that we must meet in the next decade than the onrushing climate crisis. Left unchecked, it is literally an existential threat to the health of …
How Much Will the Planet Warm If Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Doubles?
The hopeful prospect that doubling the atmospheric carbon dioxide levels might yield a relatively mild increase in global average temperatures is unlikely, according to a comprehensive new study. Equilibrium climate …
Should Congress Take Down Its Statue of Racist Chief Justice Roger Taney?
Congress is currently weighing a bill that would remove the bust of Roger B. Taney that is on display in the old Supreme Court chambers inside the capitol. Taney, who …
Trump’s Political Opportunism Has Shredded Federalism
The left has long regarded federalism as a total sham whose real purpose, since slavery, has been to maintain white dominance, not limit federal power over states. And President Donald …
Thursday Open Thread
Please feel free to write comments on this post on whatever topic you like! (As usual, please avoid personal insults of each other, vulgarities aimed at each other or of …
The Death of a Radio Pioneer
A broadcast pioneer just died in southern Mexico, a few weeks shy of his 87th birthday. Back in the 1960s and ’70s, Lorenzo Milam helped launch about a dozen offbeat …
Boulder Refuses To Lift the Cap on Unrelated People Living Together. Housing Plan To Sue the City.
The Boulder City Council in Colorado has set itself up to be sued by housing activists after a majority of the council declined to endorse a plan to place an …
Today in Supreme Court History: July 23, 1936
7/23/1936: Justice Anthony Kennedy’s birthday. Justice Anthony Kennedy ReasonFounded in 1968, Reason is the magazine of free minds and free markets. We produce hard-hitting independent journalism on civil liberties, …
Democratic Senators Demand 11th Circuit Judges “Explain” their involvement in Felon Disenfranchisement Case.
I have written two posts about the felon disenfranchisement case pending before the Eleventh Circuit. I think Judge Brasher made the correct decision to recuse himself, because his former employer …