What We Should Have Learned From Iceland’s Response to COVID-19
As epidemiologists around the world try to get a handle on COVID-19’s actual prevalence and its true case fatality rate (CFR), Iceland seems to be the only country that is …
Reason
Broke Is the Perfect New Sitcom for Our Sudden Economic Downturn
Broke. CBS. Thursday, April 9, 9:30 p.m. Most mainstream economists agree that the country isn’t technically in a recession until sitcoms about busted blue-collar families appear on three major broadcast networks at the same …
Johnny Depp’s Libel Claim Against Ex-Wife Amber Heard Can Proceed
From Judge Bruce D. White in Depp v. Heard, 2020 WL 1515197 (Va.Cir.Ct. Mar. 27), just posted yesterday on Westlaw: Plaintiff’s claim for defamation stems from four statements made in …
Dressing / Lighting / Makeup for Videoconferencing
People spend a huge amount of time, money, and effort to look good, for work and for social life. But now that much of our interactions are via videoconferencing, how …
A Mask Experiment
A week ago, I suggested that mask mandates might be part of a reasoned COVID-19 response, but that some form of random experimentation would be helpful. Since then, the prospect …
Trump to States With COVID-19 Supply Shortages: Better Luck Next Time
Trump tells states to deal with medical supply shortages on their own. The president hit a new low last night in his attempts to rewrite the history of how his …
How Israel is fighting the coronavirus
In this bonus episode, we explore Israel’s technology- and surveillance-heavy approach to the COVID-19 pandemic. In it, Matthew Waxman and I talk to Yuval Shany, a noted Israeli human rights …
Enter Conservative Living Constitutionalism
The Atlantic has just published my response to Adrian Vermuele’s Atlantic article Beyond Originalism. My piece is entitled, Common-Good Constitutionalism Reveals the Dangers of Any Non-Originalist Approach to the Constitution. …
These 10 Underappreciated Movies Make for the Perfect Quarantine Viewing Experience
Now that we have all the time in the world on our hands, filling it with movies has become an organized pursuit, and helpful film lists have proliferated online. Some …
The MAGA Doctrine
Charlie Kirk, the founder of the conservative college group Turning Point USA, has written The MAGA Doctrine, a work of exquisite flattery and brown-nosing masquerading as a field guide to Trumpism. “There …