13+ hour, 13+ min ago   (270+ words) John McCormack is a senior editor at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he was Washington correspondent at National Review and a senior writer at The Weekly Standard. He is also a visiting…...

2+ day, 14+ hour ago   (305+ words) AI can’t do our learning or thinking for us, but it excels at making us dependent on its substitution of learning and thinking, and the resulting state of helplessness when we have to think for ourselves. There are a number…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (19+ words) I much enjoyed participating in this, and I expect many of our readers will much enjoy listening to it....

5+ day, 43+ min ago   (386+ words) It's been four years since the Supreme Court struck down "may issue" concealed carry licensing regimes, but some states are still using subjective standards of "suitability" to block some applicants from legally keeping or bearing arms. One of those states…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (21+ words) Part of a Knight First Amendment Institute Symposium on Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy, which the Journal is publishing....

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (211+ words) While Massachusetts ended its outright prohibition shortly thereafter, New York City has kept its ban on the books. A district court judge and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals have upheld the ban, arguing that the plaintiffs failed to "provide…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (335+ words) Democracy invites despotism. When understood as majority rule, democracy means that fifty-one of every hundred citizens can have their way with the other forty-nine. “But I want to keep my possessions, weapons, and children.” Too bad, the majority have decided…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (597+ words) Too bad this woman didn't have a TikTok cult....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (429+ words) From the Tom Woods Letter: Here’s a recent item from Reuters you’ll find interesting: “The US Education Department ​has issued guidance urging schools to stop what it calls ‘racial balancing’ ‌in student discipline policies, prompting concerns that the Trump administration…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (410+ words) When Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the Bruen decision, he explicitly said that some places truly were sensitive enough to warrant preventing guns from being taken inside. Courthouses were one of the exceptions he named, and while I disagree about the…...