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Ron DeSantis Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller | 6.2.2023 2:26 PM This is the audio version of The Reason Livestream, which takes place every...
Affordable Housing Steven Greenhut | 6.2.2023 8:00 AM One of the biggest frustrations about getting old is hearing younger people propose ideas...
Television Eric Boehm | 6.2.2023 12:35 PM After years of toiling against a culture that refused to recognize or celebrate the value of our hero's...
Supreme Court Alison Somin and Kyle Griesinger | 6.2.2023 12:15 PM Last fall, Robert Redford (yes, that Robert Redford) took to the pages of USA...
Samuel Bray | 6.2.2023 12:03 PM In reading for my festschrift essay for John Witte ("The Influence of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on the...
Movies Katherine Mangu-Ward | From the July 2023 issue One reviewer referred to Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves as a "third-tier Lord of...
book Jesse Walker | From the July 2023 issue Henry George, a 19th century reformer who famously favored an end to all taxes except a levy on land,...
Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 6.2.2023 1:30 PM From today's decision by Judge Paul Crotty (S.D.N.Y.) in Doe v. Gooding : The Court previously …...
Torts Eugene Volokh | 6.2.2023 8:59 AM From Ward v. Kutak Rock, LLP , decided Wednesday by the Appellate Court of Illinois (Justice Eileen O'Neill...
Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 6.2.2023 8:01 AM From Dabiri v. Fed. of States Medical Bds. of the U.S., Inc. , decided Wednesday by Judge Komitee (E.D....
Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 6.2.2023 1:01 PM There's been a good deal of comment about the City University of New York law school student...
Second Amendment Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.2.2023 9:30 AM President Joe Biden has long been an advocate for strict restrictions on guns, so his son...
Fertility Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.2.2023 11:40 AM After years of consecutive declines, U.S. birthrates ticked up slightly in 2021. But that...
Brickbats Charles Oliver | 6.2.2023 4:00 AM A Mason County, Kentucky, grand jury has indicted Ripley, Ohio, police officer Caleb Savage for...
Jail Scott Shackford | 6.2.2023 1:25 PM Nineteen Rikers Island inmates died last year, marking a high the New York jail complex hasn't seen in more...
Superheroes Peter Suderman | 6.2.2023 8:29 AM It is perhaps fortuitous that Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse opens just one week after Disney's...
emergency declaration J.D. Tuccille | 6.2.2023 7:00 AM If you worry that the U.S. presidency has turned monarchical, you're not alone. Activists...
Religion and the Law Rick Garnett | 6.2.2023 8:34 AM The Volokh Conspiracy team was kind enough to let me blog this week about a recent short paper...
Free Speech Robby Soave | 6.2.2023 5:00 PM YouTube will no longer remove content that promotes false claims about U.S. elections—a tacit...
Donald Trump Jacob Sullum | 6.2.2023 5:15 PM During Donald Trump's CNN town hall last month, moderator Kaitlan Collins asked him about the hundreds...
Torts Eugene Volokh | 6.2.2023 8:59 AM From Ward v. Kutak Rock, LLP , decided Wednesday by the Appellate Court of Illinois (Justice Eileen O'Neill...
Politics John Ross | 6.2.2023 3:30 PM Please enjoy the latest edition of Short Circuit, a weekly feature written by a bunch of people at the...
Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 6.2.2023 3:30 PM The first panel, on Trusted Communicators, is up, at JournalOfFreeSpeechLaw.org; we'll be posting the...
Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 6.2.2023 3:40 PM The article is here; here's the Introduction: Political scientist and ethicist Russell Hardin observed...
Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 6.2.2023 4:34 PM The Salt Lake Tribune (Courtney Tanner) reports that the Bible will be removed from Davis (Utah)...
Civil Liberties Emma Camp | 6.2.2023 4:44 PM Maurice Jimmerson has been behind bars for 10 years but hasn't been convicted of a crime. Due to a...
Brickbats Charles Oliver | 6.1.2023 4:00 AM Victor Vandergriff resigned as a member of the Texas Department of Transportation Commission in...
Parental Rights Eugene Volokh | 6.1.2023 5:38 PM Some excerpts from the long decision in Tatel v. Mt. Lebanon School Dist. , decided yesterday by...
Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 6.1.2023 8:16 PM Today's decision in Gilliam v. Gerregano (Tenn. Ct. App.) so holds (in an opinion by Judge Kristi...
Establishment Clause Jonathan H. Adler | 6.1.2023 4:58 PM Readers may remember failed Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, the former Chief...
California Ronald Bailey | 6.1.2023 5:00 PM Like a good neighbor, State Farm Insurance is warning Californians to stop living and building in high...
Climate Change Jonathan H. Adler | 6.1.2023 5:23 PM This afternoon, Judge Aiken on the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon revived ...
Nanny State Christian Britschgi | 6.1.2023 6:00 PM With the COVID-19 pandemic fading away, the World Health Organization (WHO) is returning to its...
Police Joe Lancaster | 6.1.2023 4:39 PM After the Atlanta City Council approved the construction of the Public Safety Training Center, a police...
Military William Rampe | 6.1.2023 4:15 PM The U.S. government's " strategic ambiguity " over whether it will defend Taiwan against a Chinese...
Health Care Jaimie Cavanaugh and Daryl James | 6.1.2023 5:15 PM Starting your own medical practice is hard. In some states, it's almost impossible...
Religion and the Law Rick Garnett | 6.1.2023 7:22 PM Thanks very much, again, to The Volokh Conspiracy for inviting me to blog about my recent...
Free Speech Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 6.1.2023 9:40 AM California lawmakers are moving ahead with plans to make Google and Facebook subsidize...
Politics Katherine Mangu-Ward | From the July 2023 issue "In political oeconomy, I think Smith's wealth of nations the best book extant." So Thomas...
Supreme Court Jonathan H. Adler | 6.1.2023 7:45 AM In Sackett v. United States (Sackett II), the Supreme Court narrowed the scope of federal...
Stewart Baker | 6.1.2023 10:12 AM In this bonus episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast, I interview Jimmy Wales, the cofounder of Wikipedia. Wikipedia is...
Textualism Will Baude | 6.1.2023 7:06 AM A few months ago I linked to a lecture called "Beyond Textualism?" that I gave at Harvard Law School in the...
Guns Eugene Volokh | 6.1.2023 1:29 PM An interesting article in Politico (Betsy Woodruff Swan): The president's son is the target of a Justice...
Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 6.1.2023 1:56 PM This article (which I serialized several months ago) is now out in the NYU Journal of Law & Liberty....
Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 6.1.2023 3:37 PM From State v. Solis , decided last week by the Texas Court of Appeals (Justice Gina Benavides, joined...
War on Drugs Jacob Sullum | 6.1.2023 3:55 PM Drug prohibition sows the seeds of its own defeat by creating a highly lucrative and resilient black...
Debt Ceiling Eric Boehm | 6.1.2023 2:00 PM One of the more fascinating sideshows of the debate over raising the federal government's debt ceiling...
Artificial Intelligence Robby Soave | 6.1.2023 11:00 AM Sen. Josh Hawley (R–Mo.) has cultivated a reputation as one of the federal government's...
Property Rights Christian Britschgi | 6.1.2023 12:35 PM In January 2023, just days after her inauguration, Arizona's new Democratic governor, Katie...
Education Emma Camp | 6.1.2023 3:26 PM In Virginia, you will soon no longer need a college degree to be eligible for most jobs in the state...
David Bernstein | 6.1.2023 12:48 PM Chesa Boudin graduated Yale Law School in 2011. After two judicial clerkships bracketing a year as a post-doc...
Brickbats Charles Oliver | 5.31.2023 4:00 AM The number of gas boilers sold in Germany more than doubled in the first quarter of the year. That's...
Guns Eugene Volokh | 5.31.2023 11:56 AM From today's unanimous Georgia Supreme Court decision in Knox v. State , written by Justice Ellington: Five...
Political Ignorance Ilya Somin | 5.31.2023 4:00 PM Political ignorance and the closely related phenomenon of misinformation are serious problems....
Social Media Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.31.2023 1:10 PM For the past several years, lawmakers and bureaucrats around the country have been trying to...
Energy & Environment Veronique de Rugy | 6.1.2023 12:01 AM Too many politicians are thespians. When there's a conflict—as there often...
War on Drugs Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.31.2023 9:30 AM The spread of the synthetic opioid fentanyl—and associated overdose deaths—has become an...
Entitlements John Stossel | 5.31.2023 12:30 PM Social Security is toast. So is Medicare. Too many of us old people live longer, so there are not...
Affordable Housing Ilya Somin | 5.31.2023 10:40 AM Regulatory restrictions on the construction of new housing inflict immense harm by cutting off...
Occupational Licensing Scott Shackford | 5.31.2023 3:45 PM Georgia's Supreme Court today struck down a state law that required people who provide...
Law & Government Will Baude | 5.31.2023 11:23 PM Several provisions of the Bill of Rights seem to rely on common law concepts to define the rights...
Police Joe Lancaster | 5.31.2023 4:00 PM Recording the police can be an effective tool for transparency and oversight, but a new report shows how...
Religion and the Law Rick Garnett | 5.31.2023 8:01 AM I appreciate the invitation to blog, here at The Volokh Conspiracy, about a recent (short!)...
Election 2024 Zach Weissmueller and Nick Gillespie | 5.31.2023 11:27 AM Florida Governor Ron DeSantis said last week that he wants to lead a "great...
Economic Liberty Eugene Volokh | 5.31.2023 2:21 PM Today's unanimous decision in Raffensperger v. Jackson , written by Chief Justice Boggs, strikes...
Josh Blackman | 5.31.2023 3:23 PM [This post was co-authored with Seth Barrett Tillman] Last month, a Manhattan grand jury indicted Donald J. Trump...
Alcohol Jacob Sullum | 5.31.2023 2:55 PM When I lived in New York City a couple of decades ago, you could buy beer in grocery stores but not wine....
Presidential Debate Nick Gillespie | 5.31.2023 3:30 PM In On Liberty, John Stuart Mill wrote, "he who knows only his own side of the case knows...
Police C.J. Ciaramella | 5.31.2023 2:22 PM Following outrage over the lack of transparency surrounding the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas, last...
Student Loans Emma Camp | 5.31.2023 3:15 PM After over three years, federal student loan borrowers will likely have to start repaying their debt....
Election 2024 J.D. Tuccille | 5.31.2023 7:00 AM Americans see the next presidential election shaping up as a national trainwreck. When asked in...
Artificial Intelligence Ronald Bailey | 5.30.2023 5:00 PM While some A.I. alarmists are arguing that the further development of generative...
Free Speech Eugene Volokh | 5.30.2023 8:01 AM From Anonymous v. Bennett, decided May 3 by Roanoke County Judge Charles Dorsey: Virginia Code section...
Reason Roundup Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 5.30.2023 9:56 AM Fiscal conservatives react to debt ceiling deal. Democratic President Joe Biden and House...
Brickbats Charles Oliver | 5.30.2023 4:00 AM Transport London, the government agency that operates all the subway lines, light rail, and buses in...
Freedom Scott Shackford | From the June 2023 issue The June forecast calls for plenty of rainbows, regardless of the actual weather. Once a small...
Debt Ceiling Conor Clarke | 5.30.2023 9:04 AM There is now a deal over the debt limit, but President nevertheless insists that he's still looking...
Debt Ceiling Eric Boehm | 5.30.2023 4:45 PM Making a deal with President Joe Biden might have been the easy part. Now, with the clock ticking...
Takings Ilya Somin | 5.30.2023 7:03 PM The Brennan Center for Justice State Court Report (NYU) has published my new article on the Supreme...
Free-Range Kids Lenore Skenazy | 5.30.2023 5:20 PM Are you a parent who wants to keep your kids safe this summer? The best thing you can do is...
Housing Policy Christian Britschgi | 5.30.2023 4:30 PM The high cost and limited availability of housing in many American cities have some writers...
Irina Manta | 5.30.2023 6:38 PM The thirty-second episode (Apple Podcasts link here and Spotify link here) of Strangers on the Internet with...
Stewart Baker | 5.30.2023 7:41 PM This episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast features the second half of my interview with Paul Stephan, author of The...
Ron DeSantis C.J. Ciaramella | 5.30.2023 10:40 AM Republican Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said last week that he would seek the repeal of the FIRST...
Police Abuse Emma Camp | 5.30.2023 2:12 PM An autistic teenager died in 2020 after Louisiana police officers sat on him and placed him in a...
Religion and the Law Rick Garnett | 5.30.2023 8:13 AM Back in November of 2022, I had the privilege and pleasure of participating in a conference,...
Social Media Aaron Brown | 5.30.2023 10:15 AM In a recent article for Reason , I argued that the hundreds of studies that New York University...
Free Speech Joe Lancaster | 5.30.2023 3:00 PM Rock musician Roger Waters, founder and onetime frontman of Pink Floyd, performed concerts in Berlin...
Technology Natalie Dowzicky | 5.30.2023 11:35 AM Remaking how humans work is a core part of every tech revolution, which the Austrian economist...
Debt Ceiling Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman | 5.30.2023 3:59 PM In this week's The Reason Roundtable, editors...
Ron DeSantis Jacob Sullum | 5.31.2023 12:01 AM Ron DeSantis, who officially launched his presidential campaign last week, presents himself as a...
Eugene Volokh | 5.30.2023 5:06 PM From Judge Brantley Starr (N.D. Tex.), posted today, a standing order on Mandatory Certification Regarding...
Religion and the Law Eugene Volokh | 5.29.2023 4:20 PM I'm delighted to report that Prof. Rick Garnett (Notre Dame) will be guest-blogging this...
Guns Stephen Halbrook | 5.29.2023 9:20 PM Federal law prohibits nine categories of persons from receipt and possession of a firearm. As the...