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3 weeks ago | 
lawliberty.org | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn |Spencer Klavan |Richard Alan Ryerson |Alex J. Pollock
The addresses collected in We Have Ceased to See the Purpose: Essential Speeches of Aleksandr Solzhenitsynwere written by a man on the run. The earliest is his Nobel Prize lecture, printed in 1972 after he sent it to Stockholm in place of a live appearance. Given the way his novels depicted Soviet Russia, he worried that if he traveled to Sweden in person, he might never be allowed back. He was probably right.
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1 month ago | 
lexology.com | Keith Mathieson |Rupert Cowper-Coles |Nadia Tymkiw |Mafruhdha Miah |Samantha Thompson |Thomas Otter | +3 more
Welcome to RPC's Media and Communications law update. This month's edition on key media developments and the latest cases. Law Commission launches supplementary consultation on contempt of court reformsOn 3 March 2025, the Law Commission launched a supplementary consultation on its proposed contempt of court reforms. This follows its consultation in 2024 as previously reported in Take 10.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
mises.org | Alex J. Pollock
[Originally published by the New York Sun. Reprinted with permission of the author.]Although the Federal Reserve is and thinks of itself as part of the government, 100% of the $37 billion in paid-in stock of its twelve component Federal Reserve Banks (FRBs) is owned by private shareholders.This was part of the political compromise of the original 1913 Federal Reserve Act.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Elizabeth Matthew |Emina Melonic |Austin Raynor |Alex J. Pollock
In 1967, my mother was 10 years old. By that time, she had for about a year been taking a city bus alone, from her residential neighborhood to Philadelphia’s city center, where she would walk and window shop. She had also been babysitting her two younger siblings—alone in the house, not as a mother’s helper—from the age of seven. Even by 1960s standards, this was a lot of childhood freedom and responsibility.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
nysun.com | Alex J. Pollock
Although the Federal Reserve is â and thinks of itself as â part of the government, 100 percent of the $37 billion in paid-in stock of its twelve component Federal Reserve Banks is owned by private shareholders. This was part of the political compromise of the original 1913 Federal Reserve Act. The shareholders are the commercial banks that are the members of the respective Federal Reserve Banks.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Emina Melonic |Austin Raynor |Alex J. Pollock |Max Skjönsberg
Clint Eastwood is an unstoppable force. An actor and a director who has been building his career since his first appearance on screen in 1955, Eastwood, now 94 years old, has directed and produced a new film. Juror #2 was released in November, and like many of Eastwood’s films, it deals with justice and moral dilemmas that characters face. In the final analysis, it is a moving film that captures the complexity of human life while pointing to the redemptive power of truth.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | John Grove |Daniel Mahoney |Austin Raynor |Alex J. Pollock
Daniel Mahoney has written a beautiful and insightful reflection on “Scrutonian Conservatism” to set up this forum on the five-year anniversary of Sir Roger Scruton’s passing. Mahoney’s essay also serves as a wonderful introduction for anyone unfamiliar with Scruton’s ideas.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Adam Candeub |Alex J. Pollock |Max Skjönsberg |Daniel Mahoney
January 9, 2025 In the wake of technological revolution, the Supreme Court should let states and parents protect their children from online pornography. The smartphone has transformed American childhood. Kids today respond above all to social media’s panopticon of perpetual peer judgment and corporate-funded online influencers. As a result, kids have less need for the approval of parents, teachers, coaches, and ministers.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Rachel Lu |Alex J. Pollock |Max Skjönsberg |Daniel Mahoney
January 9, 2025 Sleep experts are anxious to end Daylight Savings, because they want to put us to bed like toddlers. As a new chapter opens for American politics, it is natural to feel a certain uneasiness. What lies ahead? Will Americans continue to enjoy the peace and prosperity with which we have for so long been blessed, or will our way of life be torn asunder, as customs and conventions are reordered by an aggressive state?
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Corbin K. Barthold |Alex J. Pollock |Max Skjönsberg |Daniel Mahoney
During Robert Bork’s bruising nomination process in 1987, a reporter realized that he and Bork frequented the same video store. This reporter hit on the idea of asking to see Bork’s rental history, and, lo and behold, a clerk coughed it right up. The list was not what sank Bork’s nomination—the good judge was fond of Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock; there was nothing salacious. But there could have been, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle were scandalized by the invasion of Bork’s privacy.
