Glenn Reynolds

Dec 2, 2024 | lawliberty.org | R. J. Snell |David Hebert |Daniel Mahoney |Glenn Reynolds

American institutions of higher learning, perhaps especially the most selective of them, are failing to help students become tolerant, reflective, and respectful of different viewpoints. Intolerance and dogmatism are common, resulting in censorship, cancel culture, unreasonable limits on free speech, unlawful protests, and violence. Student dogmatism is enabled by faculty orthodoxies, of this, there is little doubt.

Nov 29, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Carson Holloway |David Hebert |Daniel Mahoney |Glenn Reynolds

I am grateful to Law & Liberty for publishing this forum on New York Times v. Sullivan and the meaning of the First Amendment. I also wish to thank the other contributors for the thought and care they put into their responses to my critique of the Sullivan doctrine. Their arguments help to clarify the issues involved in this important matter. I will try to address their principal points as thoroughly as I can, moving from the less radical to the more radical criticisms.

Nov 28, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Rachel Alexander Cambre |Daniel Mahoney |Glenn Reynolds |Nadya Williams

“This is my story, my giving of thanks.” So begins Wendell Berry’s 2004 novel Hannah Coulter, narrated by the titular character, a 79-year-old woman recounting her life’s story. It is a work of thanksgiving, and it is a work about thanksgiving—how it is practiced, how it is learned, and what happens when it gives way to restless longing for “a better place.”As such, it raises questions pertinent to today’s holiday.

Nov 27, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Titus Techera |Daniel Mahoney |Glenn Reynolds |Nadya Williams

Thanksgiving is unique among American holidays because it’s not simply political, like Independence Day, which belongs only to Americans, nor simply a religious celebration shared among all Christians, like Christmas or Easter. It’s a mix of the two, but it is also more emphatically than others a family celebration. It is legally established, part of our political institutions, but it points back before them to something more fundamental, which suggests theology.

Nov 27, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Judy Shelton |Thomas Savidge |Daniel Mahoney |Glenn Reynolds

In 2012, Charles Plosser, then President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, gave a speech titled, “Fiscal and Monetary Policy: Restoring the Boundaries.” In the wake of the response to the Great Recession, Plosser lamented that both governments and board members were pushing central banks to engage in policy areas well beyond their scope of authority (such as credit allocation). Twelve years later, Plosser’s speech appears prescient.