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25+ min ago (193+ words) From the "Gitlow v. New York at 100" symposium, held this year at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law; other papers from that symposium will be published here in the coming weeks. Eugene Volokh | 12.2.2025 8:01 AM The article is here; the Introduction: The Supreme Court never adopted Holmes's suggestion. But to say only that would be misleading: Far from flirting with a more deferential attitude to freedom of speech in state cases, the Supreme Court from the beginning applied free speech principles to the states with substantially greater vigor than to the restrictions at the federal level. NEXT: Today in Supreme Court History: December 2, 1907 Damon Root | 12.2.2025 7:00 AM Eric Boehm | From the January 2026 issue Charles Oliver | 12.2.2025 4:00 AM Jacob Sullum | 12.1.2025 3:35 PM Gregory Lyakhov | 12.1.2025 2:00 PM Support journalism that exposes bad economics, failed policies, and threats to open markets. Back independent media that…...

47+ min ago (640+ words) New records show Ian Roberts, the illegal alien who led public schools, appears to have claimed U.S. citizenship on Maryland voter forms. The illegal alien who ran Iowa's largest public school district before being apprehended by ICE claimed to be a U.S. citizen on his Maryland voter registration forms, according to records obtained by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF)." Ian Andre Roberts' apparent false claim of citizenship exposes Maryland's election integrity vulnerabilities and proves the need for better immigration status vetting, a foundation official asserts. The case also screams for congressional passage of a bill requiring documentary proof of"U.S. citizenship to vote in federal elections." Roberts lived in Maryland for several years, working as a teacher and a school administrator. He wasn't a U.S. citizen then, just as he wasn't when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested the Des Moines Public Schools…...

51+ min ago (480+ words) Without Iraq-style lies about Russia, the collusion hoax, the impeachment farce, and the 51 intel officials laundering deception for political gain, there likely would have been no Russia-Ukraine war. The proposed Ukraine peace deal has shaken the political class that insisted escalation with Moscow was the only acceptable course. How, they ask, can Russia possibly walk away with concessions? Part of this is simply material: Russia has ground out battlefield gains and retains the manpower and resources to sustain the war indefinitely. But that is only one dimension of it. To understand why, we need to revisit the past 12 years. For many Americans, Ukraine entered the political spotlight in early 2014, when the Obama administration encouraged and facilitated a revolution in Kiev. Neocon stalwarts like John McCain and Lindsey Graham happily joined in, treating regime change as a moral crusade rather than…...

52+ min ago (254+ words) However, one major, and overlooked, problem with these subsidies is how they harmed people with employer-sponsored insurance and created large incentives for small employers to not offer health insurance. If you get employer-sponsored insurance, you get a tax advantage because you get to exclude the premium " a large portion of which is the compensation you earned " from your income taxes and payroll taxes. In contrast, under the ACA, the federal government sends subsidies to health insurers in the names of their enrollees, but these are unearned benefits. If Congress resuscitates the COVID-era enhanced ACA subsidies, it gets worse. The family's subsidy would be $22,017, and the net government penalty for earning coverage at work would increase to $16,113. Because the ACA's subsidies are so large, coverage is shifting from an earned workplace benefit to an unearned government welfare benefit. When employers drop…...

53+ min ago (653+ words) Whether through tea parties or tours or online courses, now is the perfect time to celebrate Jane Austen and her literary accomplishments. It is a truth universally acknowledged that 2025 is a momentous year for Jane Austen fans. Dec. 16 marks the 250th anniversary of Austen's birth, and Janeites around the world have been celebrating in ways both big and small. Libraries, bookstores, and literary clubs have hosted events, and historical sites and museums have held costumed galas for legions of Austen devotees. It appears that Jane Austen's life and novels are more popular than ever, spawning a cottage industry of Austen-inspired gifts, books, and products for diehard fans as well as new followers of her work. A casual reader may dismiss Austen as a precursor to Chick Lit, but her life and novels are much more complicated than the stuff of romance....

53+ min ago (789+ words) [Children in classroom]An index designed to categorize speech as contemptuous or dignifying threatens to become another speech suppression and indoctrination tool. An index designed to categorize speech as contemptuous or dignifying threatens to become another speech suppression and indoctrination tool. The University of Utah recently opened the first official office for the Dignity Index, a program based on an eight-point scale that rates how statements sound during political or social disagreement. Project UNITE, the Index's creator, is marketing the speech-classification framework to politicians, business leaders, and educators across the country, and several school districts and universities have already adopted the tool. The Dignity Index was created by the nonprofit Project UNITE and piloted in Utah through a partnership with researchers at the University of Utah's Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, David Eccles School of Business, and Hinckley Institute of Politics....

1+ hour, 26+ min ago (94+ words) Josh Blackman | 12.2.2025 7:00 AM 12/2/1907: Ex Parte Young argued. Damon Root | 12.2.2025 7:00 AM Eric Boehm | From the January 2026 issue Charles Oliver | 12.2.2025 4:00 AM Jacob Sullum | 12.1.2025 3:35 PM Gregory Lyakhov | 12.1.2025 2:00 PM Support journalism that exposes bad economics, failed policies, and threats to open markets. Back independent media that examines the real-world consequences of socialist policies. Your donation supports the journalism that questions big-government promises and exposes failed ideas....

1+ hour, 26+ min ago (415+ words) You may have heard that the U.S. Supreme Court "invented" the power of judicial review in a case called Marbury v. Madison (1803). If you're on the political left, you may have heard it from someone like New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie, who once argued that judicial review "wasn't enumerated in the Constitution and isn't inherent in the [Supreme Court] as an institution." For Bouie, that meant the idea of abolishing judicial review was a no-brainer in the fight against "judges nominated by [President Donald] Trump." If you're on the political right, you may have heard it from someone like the conservative influencer Mike Cernovich, who recently argued that judicial review "isn't anywhere in the Constitution" and "Marbury vs Madison was made up." For Cernovich, that meant "judges do not have any supervisory power over Trump." Bouie and Cernovich undoubtedly disagree about…...

2+ hour, 26+ min ago (1683+ words) One danger of nationalism, Friedrich Hayek warned in 1960, was the "bridge" it provides "from conservatism to collectivism." "To think in terms of 'our' industry or resource," he'wrote, "is only a short step away from demanding that these national assets be directed in the national interest." That's a short step that President Donald Trump has eagerly taken. In the first nine months of his second term in office, the president has overseen a giant government leap into the boardrooms of strategically important businesses. Even in light of the administration's other intrusions into the free market'hiking tariffs on nearly all imports, applying ideological conditions on media companies' proposed mergers, and the like'this has been a breathtaking turn of events. Trump and his top officials have signaled that they are only getting started. In August he'told'reporters "I want to try and get as…...

3+ hour, 25+ min ago (256+ words) Less than a year after opening a Qatari bureau underwritten by the sheikhs in Doha, CNN will co-sponsor a Qatari government confab next week featuring a slew of Israel-bashing Arab officials and spokesmen for America's enemies. CNN's sponsorship of the forum comes as the left-wing network plants its flag in Qatar. It announced an expansion to the Hamas-friendly Gulf monarchy in February, establishing an office in Doha's Media City, where Qatar has provided tens of millions of dollars to incentivize media companies to establish operations there. CNN did not respond to a request regarding the cost of sponsoring the Doha Forum. CNN has not labeled the show "sponsored content," even as Qatar provides funds to build a "purpose-built studio with custom workspaces, designed to enable dynamic content creation and collaborative, spontaneous work among the team," as CNN described its Doha…...