Thursday Open Thread
What's on your mind?
"[E]rroneous precedent once in motion need not stay in motion."
Rising tuition costs have made three-year degree programs an enticing option for cost-stressed students.
Links to all my writings on these topics.
What is a "house"?
The change in official warnings and news coverage reflects the dearth of evidence that malicious pranksters are trying to dose trick-or-treaters.
More than presidential politics or #AnticipatoryObedience, economics is to blame (or thank) for the long, slow death of a publishing anachronism.
Even the poorest citizens of free countries fare better than the middle classes in economically repressive nations.
Dave Smith is for Trump. Jacob Grier is for Harris. David Stockman says we're screwed either way.
China's crackdown on costumes is a reminder that the holiday is about freedom.
The country claims to be a leader in crypto transactions. But you can't force people to take a currency they don't want.
Plus: Andrew Cuomo's potential prosecution, Texas death blamed on abortion ban, and more...
A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.
Federal agents are allowed to search private property without a warrant under this Prohibition-era Supreme Court precedent.
Americans' ignorant or capricious views on crime rates may seem inconsequential, but they have very real effects in setting prosecutorial policy.
You might as well lose some weight while you’re losing your mind.
The ballot initiatives would allow recreational marijuana use in Florida and the Dakotas, authorize medical marijuana in Nebraska, and decriminalize five natural psychedelics in Massachusetts.
Recently released and unrepentant, Steve Bannon returns one week before Election Day with his same old talking points.
A university president provides a helpful explanation of the difference.
The Stony Brook sociologist discusses how progressives are having a hard time processing why more and more black and Latino voters are supporting Donald Trump.
Twenty years ago to the day, the CVRA took effect ... changing the legal culture in federal criminal cases.
A Department of Energy analysis found natural gas is the cheapest residential energy source on the market.
But if they admitted that, they would be out of a job.
The Air Force paid nearly $150,000 above market value for airplane bathroom fixtures, a Department of Defense watchdog found.
The Building Chips in America Act shields CHIPS-subsidized firms from the National Environmental Policy Act.
The groups are challenging a Florida law that bans some teens from social media.
By prosecuting the website's founders, the government chilled free speech online and ruined lives.
Plus: Kamala Harris' closing argument, the FTC's harassment of Musk-owned Twitter, and more
My op-ed in The Hill discusses the problem of prosecutors confessing "error" where none exists.
A recent website "upgrade" is not an improvement.
A review of Prof. Mary Anne Franks' new book, Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment (plus a response by Prof. Franks to Prof. Mchangama's Tweeted criticisms, and a reply by Prof. Mchangama).
America remains a refuge for people seeking education freedom.
The Republican presidential candidate’s views do not reflect any unifying principle other than self-interest.
Can't Americans all just get along? Maybe we can't—and perhaps we shouldn't have to.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was running for President, but now he isn't and he does not want to be on the ballot in states where that might hurt Trump.
A new article from the Daedalus (Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences) Future of Free Speech Symposium.
Immigration restrictions nearly prevented Musk from making his major contributions to economic innovation, and they do block all too many other potentially great innovators.
How to pick your poison.
So holds a federal court (correctly, I think), considering restrictions that were prompted by Texas Governor Abbott's General Order GA-44.
Regulating AI could threaten free speech, just as earlier proposed regulations of other media once did.
Proposition 33 would repeal all of California's state-level limits on rent control. It's passage could prove to be a disaster for housing supply in the Golden State.