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3 weeks ago | 
lawliberty.org | James Rogers |Rachel Lu |James Allan |Mark Hall
The central normative claim for the unitary executive is an irony. It claims that expanding presidential authority over the entire executive branch enhances rather than diminishes the system of checks and balances established in the US Constitution.
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4 weeks ago | 
lawliberty.org | Charles T. Rubin |Rachel Lu |James Allan |Mark Hall
I appreciate the attention given to my article by my interlocutors. I regret that the skeptical and anti-utopian thrust of my original essay was not clearer to them, Rachel Lomasky in particular. The last words of James Pethokoukis’s essay will serve as a good way to start clarifying. Although he concedes that there is a dystopian streak in the thought of some of the most enthusiastic promoters of AI, he denies that their vision will wholly guide the development of this technology.
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4 weeks ago | 
lawliberty.org | Michael Lewis |John O. McGinnis |Rachel Lu |James Allan
Among its many innovations, The New Yorker turned the humble biographical sketch into “The Reporter at Large,” arresting prose that revealed what little-known people do and why their work matters.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Ray Nothstine |A Future |Charles T. Rubin |Rachel Lu
In an era of collapsing public trust in institutions, many Americans are left asking who really governs us and if perpetual dysfunction is the new normal. Can America’s heritage of self-government be restored, or is that legacy just another high-water mark in the history of the West? In his essay “AI, Governance, and Our ‘Utopian’ Future,” Charles T. Rubin wonders what kind of political framework is motivating federal DOGE efforts and what direction Trump’s presidency portends for America.
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2 months ago | 
lawliberty.org | Thomas Howard |Rachel Lu |Theodore Dalrymple |Bruno Meyerhof Salama
In 1908, a 13-year-old boy named Khorloogiin Dugar entered a Buddhist monastery in Achit Beysiyn, Mongolia, a region under the control of the Qing Dynasty. He took the religious name “Choibalsan” and began studying to be a lama, but spirituality, it would seem, was not his forte. In 1913, the boy fled from the monastery and found his way into the Russian education system.
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2 months ago | 
lawliberty.org | Rachel Lu |John Grove |Jodi Bruhn |John Berlau
The Black Death marked an interesting turning point in European history. It was of course a monumental tragedy, killing as much as half of the entire population of fourteenth-century Europe, inflicting terror and suffering on an unimaginable scale. If you managed to survive it, your chances of thriving in the post-plague world were relatively good. With so much newly available land and resources, science and agriculture saw significant advances.
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Feb 21, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Luke Foster |Mark Pulliam |Rachel Lu |Amy Swearer
Vivek Ramaswamy’s much-discussed Christmas X post reflected several questionable assumptions, but it was right to link a culture’s highest aspirations and its education. One could be forgiven for watching the children’s movies popular in 1990s America and drawing the conclusion that what we most wanted was a life of ease, security and spontaneity—akin to the self-indulgence of an ancient tyrant.
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Feb 21, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Thomas Powers |Mark Pulliam |Rachel Lu |Amy Swearer
In just one month, there has been a massive reset of civil rights politics in the United States that will reverberate for decades. We are still waiting to see how this is going to take precise shape in the context of higher education. Among the Trump administration’s many DEI-related executive orders, none yet outlines a detailed program to address progressive extremism in our colleges and universities (though several do touch on it directly or indirectly).
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Chad Squitieri |Mark Pulliam |Rachel Lu |Amy Swearer
Under Chief Justice Roberts, the Supreme Court has demonstrated a willingness to enforce the Constitution’s separation-of-powers principles. This is welcome news for those who think that aspects of the administrative state run afoul of important constitutional lines separating the federal government’s three coequal branches. But not everyone has found the Roberts Court’s separation-of-powers jurisprudence to be cause for celebration.
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Feb 20, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Robert G. Natelson |Mark Pulliam |Rachel Lu |Amy Swearer
February 20, 2025 USAID grants may have cracked constitutional spending limits. The new Department of Government Efficiency informs us that the federal government, through its Agency for International Development (AID), has been distributing taxpayer money for condoms in Gaza, DEI in Serbia and Ireland, and transgender stage productions in Columbia and Peru.
