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Jan 15, 2025 | 
compactmag.com | James Hankins
During its annual meeting earlier this month, the American Historical Association, the oldest and most prestigious body of professional historians in the country, voted to approve at its business meeting a resolution to condemn Israel for committing “scholasticide” against Palestinian Gaza.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
firstthings.com | James Hankins
Recently I had an experience that I suppose is becoming increasingly common. The large, publicly traded energy company that has taken control of gas and electric utilities in my region, replacing nine local companies, decided in July, for reasons best known to itself, to change the account numbers of some portion of its clientele, including me. I found out only because the balance associated with my old account number had remained zero for six weeks, which I knew could not be correct.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | John O. McGinnis |Nadya Williams |Juliana Geran Pilon |James Hankins
The debate over disinformation today reveals a fundamental divide not merely between Republicans and Democrats, but between two philosophies of human nature that both trace their lineage to the Enlightenment. Those advocating government suppression of disinformation believe that individuals are products of their environment, molded by the inputs they receive.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | James Hankins |Nadya Williams |Juliana Geran Pilon |John O. McGinnis
The policies of the incoming administration with regard to the federal role in education, despite a great deal of fearmongering during the election season, have not yet taken shape. Though the administration nominated Linda McMahon for Secretary of Education this week, the administration’s priorities in education are being assessed on the basis of statements made by candidates during the election.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | H. W. Brands |James Hankins |David Schaefer |Robert G. Natelson
There is a thread of isolationist sentiment that runs through discussions of America’s foreign affairs, and that thread is often woven into the fabric of the nation’s foreign policy. From Washington’s admonition to avoid foreign entanglements, to the Monroe Doctrine, even to the Anti-Imperialist League, Americans have often rejected foreign engagement and opposed American intervention abroad. H. W. Brands’s newest book, America First: Roosevelt vs.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Anne Applebaum |Juliana Geran Pilon |Peter Schweitzer |James Hankins
Making sense of the geopolitical landscape after 1989 would be hard enough without the self-inflicted fantasy that ideology, and thus history, had reached its final resting place. Once the infamous Iron Wall pulverized into the dustbin of history, Western intellectuals fed on a steady diet of dialectics proclaimed the emergence of a new consensus. The new world no longer needed to be brave: it was becoming flat.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | John O. McGinnis |James Hankins |David Schaefer |Robert G. Natelson
The new originalist majority on the Supreme Court faces a problem: from their originalist viewpoint, many past opinions are ill-reasoned. Certainly, New York Times v. Sullivan is one of them. It thus may well be a candidate for overruling. Professor Holloway is to be congratulated for putting its reconsideration on the table. That said, overruling Sullivan raises many difficult questions for an originalist. Indeed, it would be a perfect issue spotter for an exam in a course on originalist theory.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Stephen Breyer |James Rogers |James Hankins |David Schaefer
My Law & Liberty colleague John McGinnis observed regarding Stephen Breyer’s 2024 book, Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism, that one need not “be a rigid textualist” to conclude Breyer’s theory of statutory and constitutional interpretation “ultimately unpersuasive.” McGinnis’s point is entirely correct.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | James Hankins |David Schaefer |Robert G. Natelson |Carson Holloway
Disparity studies comparing various demographic groups based on different outcomes in education, employment, health, housing, and income have been a staple of public policy analysis for decades. Depending on the variables controlled for, it may be argued that a group is underutilized, underrepresented, or even marginalized. Nowhere, however, have these studies had such legal significance as their effect on public procurement. Now that era may be coming to an end.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | James Wallner |James Hankins |David Schaefer |Robert G. Natelson
One prominent political commentator asserted that the presidential election was anxiety-inducing for many Americans.
