Review: Archive
The year is 2038, and strange things are happening at a robotics factory deep in the snowy woods of Japan. Research scientist George Almore (Theo James), who lives here alone …
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Mrs. America
In 1983, radical feminist Gloria Steinem called conservative Phyllis Schlafly “an artificial creation of the fairness doctrine”—famous only because the media were legally forced to give both sides airtime. Barbs …
Brickbat: You Have to Move
A code enforcement officer in Aurora, Ontario, Canada, issued a woman a fine of $880 (about $650 U.S.) for “standing too long” in a park under emergency coronavirus restrictions. The …
Overtime July ends with the “Clean-Up” List
The October Term 2019 is finally over. Overtime July came to a close with the anticlimactic final order sheet. This list, known as the “clean-up,” takes care of all lingering …
“Black [Palmdale,] California Man Found Hanging From a Tree Died of Suicide, Officials Say”
CNN (Jon Passantino & Jenn Selva) reports, on a case that was pretty prominent in the news together with a similar hanging in Victorville: The death of a 24-year-old California …
Garry Kasparov and Me, Talking About Free Speech …
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“TCPA Class Certification Denial Exposes Major Spousal Scheme” Is a Statement of Opinion,
From Wexler v. Dorsey & Whitney LLP, decided today by the Second Circuit (Judges Jon O. Newman, Peter W. Hall, and Gerard E. Lynch) In 2015, plaintiff Shimshon Wexler brought …
Trump v. Vance, Burr v. Jefferson, Marshall v. Roberts
I have just finished editing Trump v. Vance for the Barnett/Blackman supplement. Please e-mail me if you’d like a copy (josh-at-joshblackman-dot-com). SCOTUSBlog invited me to submit an essay on the case. …
FIRE Letter About the UCLA Letter from Birmingham Jail Controversy
From the FIRE letter: We are concerned that UCLA may have departed from its commitment to academic freedom and its obligations under the First Amendment by investigating university lecturer Lt. …
Are We Living in Crazytown?
The anti-cancel culture letter published in Harper’s and signed by various intellectuals ranging ideologically from Noam Chomsky to Steven Pinker, and the harsh reaction to it from many “progressive” activists, …