# Reason.com

> The leading libertarian magazine and covering news, politics, culture, and more with reporting and analysis.

## Latest Posts

- [Trump Says His 'Armed Conflict' With Drug Traffickers Does Not Involve 'Hostilities'](https://reason.com/2025/11/03/trump-says-his-armed-conflict-with-drug-traffickers-does-not-involve-hostilities/): President Donald Trump has sought to justify the summary execution of suspected drug smugglers by arguing that the United States is engaged in an "armed conflict" with criminal organizations that supply prohibited intoxicants. Yet the Trump administration also insists that U.S. forces are not engaging in "hostilities" when they blow up boats believed to be...
- [In Tariff Case, Trump's Attorneys Can't Decide if Foreign Investment Is Good or Bad for America](https://reason.com/2025/11/03/in-tariff-case-trumps-attorneys-cant-decide-if-foreign-investment-is-good-or-bad-for-america/): When the Trump administration's lawyers go before the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday to argue a crucial case that will determine the limits of presidential tariff authority, they will be asking the justices to accept contradictory claims about the value of foreign investment in the United States. In a brief filed with the court ahead...
- [Oklahoma's Obscenity Bait and Switch Could Ban Pride Parades and Public Drag Shows](https://reason.com/2025/11/03/oklahomas-obscenity-bait-and-switch-could-ban-pride-parades-and-public-drag-shows/): Oklahoma lawmakers are suggesting that a new state law aimed at "adult performances" means municipalities must predict what sorts of events might become obscene and preemptively prohibit them. It's a clear recipe for chilling protected speech--especially drag performances, which were one of the main targets of the law. H.B. 1217 did not explicitly mention drag...
- [Senate Investigations Find Medical Neglect and Other Human Rights Violations in Immigration Detention Centers](https://reason.com/2025/11/03/senate-investigations-find-medical-neglect-and-other-human-rights-violations-in-immigration-detention-centers/): A new report from Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) has found more than 80 cases of medical neglect and inadequate food and water in immigration detention centers across the country, the Associated Press reports. Detainees have been denied insulin and other needed medications; one went days without treatment after suffering a heart attack. These findings follow...
- [The Democratic Thrill for Mamdani Is a Tell](https://reason.com/2025/11/03/the-democratic-thrill-for-mamdani-is-a-tell/): There are any number of personal qualities that make New York mayoral front-runner Zohran Kwame Mamdani's political prominence seem improbable: his youth, his inexperience, his socialism, his terrible rapping, his statements of anti-Israel animus in the world's second-largest Jewish city. But the unlikeliest aspect to the State Assembly member's meteoric rise may be that an electoral...
- [Will Democrats Find Their Way?](https://reason.com/2025/11/03/will-democrats-find-their-way/): Tomorrow, voters decide their political fates: In New York City, voters will choose between democratic socialist up-and-comer Zohran Mamdani, Republican Curtis Sliwa, and Democrat--but technically independent, because he lost the primary to Mamdani--Andrew Cuomo, who resigned as governor amid scandals in 2021. Mamdani is expected to win, and then fresh hell will be unleashed. In...
- [Chicago Cops Ignore the Law, Arrest Legal Gun Owners](https://reason.com/2025/11/03/chicago-cops-ignore-the-law-arrest-legal-gun-owners/): The whole premise of a mother-may-I approach to licensing activities like owning and carrying firearms is that the powers that be will honor the documents of those lucky enough to receive permission after agreeing to pretend that their rights are privileges. If, instead, officialdom laughs at the licenses it issues and penalizes people foolish enough...
- [He Served His Time for Sex Offenses He Committed as a Teen. He's Still Locked Up With No Release Date.](https://reason.com/2025/11/03/he-never-got-to-go-home/): Jennifer Williams' son, Justin Sanchez, was a teenager when he committed the crimes that would land him behind bars. Now 31, he is still a prisoner--even though he's served his sentence for the two sexual offenses he committed at ages 15 and 16. Like many others who have served their time for sex crimes, Justin...
- [Brickbat: You've Got To Go](https://reason.com/2025/11/03/brickbat-youve-got-to-go/): Louisiana State Police arrested two former Alexandria Police Department officers, Austin Butler and Dylan Tritle, after they were fired for using excessive force in three separate incidents in July 2025. Both were charged with malfeasance in office, while Butler faces a charge of simple battery. In one case, the officers responded to a noise complaint...
- [How the Punisher, a Murderous Anti-Hero, Became the Mascot for Increasingly Militarized Police Forces](https://reason.com/2025/11/02/the-punisher-isnt-a-role-model/): In 2015, actor Jon Bernthal appeared at New York Comic Con soon after the announcement that he would portray Marvel Comics' famous vigilante the Punisher in the Netflix series Daredevil. "I know how important he is to law enforcement, to the military," he told the crowd. "I look at this as a huge honor, a huge...
- [Illinois Is Taking the Feds to Court Over 'Trump's Invasion' of Chicago](https://reason.com/2025/11/02/trump-invasion-of-american-cities/): "Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice \[sic\] Officers!" President Donald Trump blasted on Truth Social on October 8. "Governor Pritzker also!" The state of Illinois and the city of Chicago filed suit against the Trump administration on October 6, arguing that the Defense Department's deployment of both Illinois and Texas National Guard...
- [About 1 in 5 Kids Are at Risk of Losing SNAP. Centralized Control Keeps Failing Low-Income Families.](https://reason.com/2025/11/01/about-1-in-5-kids-are-at-risk-of-losing-snap-centralized-control-keeps-failing-low-income-families/): The federal government shutdown is disrupting major federal programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Now one in five children nationwide risks losing benefits because Congress has failed to pass a budget. On October 30, a federal judge ordered the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to draw from SNAP's contingency fund to cover...
- [Why Are Lawmakers Crusading Against Surge Pricing in Restaurants?](https://reason.com/2025/11/01/why-are-lawmakers-crusading-against-surge-pricing-in-restaurants/): Gig companies like Uber and Lyft have popularized the economic concept of dynamic pricing (also known as "surge pricing"), making it a common phenomenon in our modern economy. Now, some restaurants are also considering more advanced dynamic pricing models, which has led to intense pushback from the political left. In 2024, fast-food chain Wendy's made...
- [Mamdani's Socialist Mayorship Will Make New York a Worse Place To Live and Do Business](https://reason.com/2025/11/01/mamdanis-socialist-mayorship-will-make-new-york-a-worse-place-to-live-and-do-business/): As I write this, I have yet to cast my vote for the mayor of New York City, where I live (a question I can answer more easily and definitively than the current mayor). In most elections, there are only two bad choices. But because New York has more of everything, from people to rats...
- [James Comey Says His Grudge-Driven Prosecution Is Unconstitutional Retaliation for His Criticism of Trump](https://reason.com/2025/10/31/james-comey-says-his-grudge-driven-prosecution-is-unconstitutional-retaliation-for-his-criticism-of-trump/): A year after Donald Trump fired him, former FBI Director James Comey published a memoir that compared the president to a mafioso, portraying him as "a deeply flawed person and leader" who "either didn't know" or "didn't care" that federal law enforcement officials have a higher duty than obedience to the president's whims. The grudge-driven...
- [They Face $1 Million in Fines--for Someone Else's Code Violations](https://reason.com/2025/10/31/they-face-1-million-in-fines-for-someone-elses-code-violations/): A California couple is staring down stratospheric fines after their property allegedly ran afoul of local cannabis code violations. The kicker, however, is that the previous owner is to blame for the infractions. That has not deterred Humboldt County, California, from levying $1 million in civil penalties against Corrine and Doug Thomas, who bought the...
- [iRobot Faces Bankruptcy After Elizabeth Warren Helped Kill $1.65 Billion Amazon Merger](https://reason.com/2025/10/31/irobot-faces-bankruptcy-after-elizabeth-warren-helped-kill-1-65-billion-amazon-merger/): A struggling American manufacturer may soon face bankruptcy. This was not just the result of low sales, but of government regulators butting in. Online retail giant Amazon announced in August 2022 that it had agreed to purchase iRobot, makers of Roomba robot vacuums, for $1.65 billion. The acquisition would expand Amazon's footprint in the smart...
- [How Opioid Settlement Money Turned Into a $600K Party Fund](https://reason.com/2025/10/31/how-opioid-settlement-money-turned-into-a-600k-party-fund/): The town of Irvington in Essex County, New Jersey, was hit hard by the opioid crisis. In 2023, the county recorded 459 drug overdose deaths, 401 of them opioid-related--the most deaths of any county in the state. Despite this predicament, Irvington officials spent most of their more than $1 million share of opioid settlement funds...
- [Trump's National Guard Plan Edges the U.S. Closer to a Permanent Federal Police Force](https://reason.com/2025/10/31/trumps-national-guard-plan-edges-the-u-s-closer-to-a-permanent-federal-police-force/): The Pentagon is directing every state and U.S. territory to create "quick reaction forces" within their National Guards, which will be trained to respond to civil disturbances and emergencies, according to a recently leaked memo obtained by The Guardian. The memo instructs the National Guard Bureau to train these forces in riot control tactics, rapid...
- [Britain's Prince Andrew Taken Down by Epstein and Chinese Spy Scandals](https://reason.com/2025/10/31/britains-prince-andrew-taken-down-by-epstein-and-chinese-spy-scandals/): It's not every day that a royal becomes a commoner. But Buckingham Palace announced on Thursday that Andrew, formerly known as Prince Andrew, would now be an ordinary citizen known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor. He will also lose his taxpayer-funded digs at the Royal Lodge and move to a private home. The palace's press release...
- [Zohran Mamdani's $5 Billion Corporate Tax Hike Threatens NYC's Status as the World's Financial Capital](https://reason.com/2025/10/31/zohran-mamdanis-5-billion-corporate-tax-hike-threatens-nycs-status-as-the-worlds-financial-capital/): Zohran Mamdani has put forth many bold--and expensive--proposals in his New York City mayoral bid, including childcare for all, government-run grocery stores, and free buses. He's planning to pay for these proposals with various tax hikes, including a large jump in the city's corporate tax rate from 7.5 percent to 11.5 percent. He claims this...
- [Trump's Tariff Chaos Crushes Board Game Makers: 'The U.S. Is Our Least Trustworthy Trading Partner'](https://reason.com/2025/10/31/trumps-tariff-chaos-crushes-board-game-makers-the-u-s-is-our-least-trustworthy-trading-partner/): Price Johnson isn't a fan of games of chance. Unfortunately, his gaming business is now caught in a high-stakes contest where the outcome feels entirely out of his hands. Cephalofair Games, where Johnson works as COO, prides itself on making games that limit randomness and reward players for making strategic decisions and planning ahead. The...
- [The Long Road Home](https://reason.com/2025/10/31/the-long-road-home/): The Wounded Generation: Coming Home After World War II, by David Nasaw, Penguin Random House, 496 pages, $35 "There wasn't any band there; there wasn't anybody greeting me except the girl that I had \[written\] to while I was overseas. That was my homecoming." That poignant moment recounted by World War II veteran Clinton Riddle...
- [In Yorgos Lanthimos' *Bugonia*, Elites Are Alien Creatures](https://reason.com/2025/10/31/in-yorgos-lanthimos-bugonia-elites-are-alien-creatures/): As movies that diagnose the modern condition go, you can't do much better than Yorgos Lanthimos' Bugonia. Lanthimos has always been cold and caustic, proffering oddball metaphors for the absurd state of existence. But those fantastic metaphors have often been a little too on the nose, and his coldness has sometimes read as self-satisfied smugness....

## Latest: Podcasts

- [Jake Tapper on Censorship, Media Failings, and Presidential Power](https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/29/jake-tapper-on-censorship-media-failings-and-presidential-power/): The Reason Interview goes deep with the artists, activists, entrepreneurs, and policymakers who are making the world a more libertarian--or at least more interesting--place by challenging worn-out orthodoxies and ideas. Today's guest is Jake Tapper, the host of The Lead on CNN and author of the new book, Race Against Terror: Chasing an Al Qaeda Killer at the Dawn...
- [Javier Milei's Libertarian Policies Win Shock Election](https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/27/javier-mileis-libertarian-policies-win-shock-election/): This week, editors Peter Suderman, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch are joined by associate editor Liz Wolfe to discuss Argentine President Javier Milei's strong midterm showing and what it suggests about the durability of his libertarian reform agenda. They debate whether the results vindicate Trump's earlier currency-swap bailout, how Milei's spending-cut program is playing out, and what lessons...
- [Is Oregon Proof That Drug Decriminalization Will Fail?](https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/24/does-oregon-show-that-drugs-should-be-illegal/): Drug policy scholar Kevin Sabet and Reason's Zach Weissmueller debate the resolution, "The failure of Oregon's experiment in decriminalizing all drugs is compelling evidence that other attempts at complete decriminalization will fail just as badly." Arguing for the affirmative is Sabet, the director of the Drug Policy Institute at the University of Florida, and the...
- [What Happened to the Republican Party?](https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/22/what-happened-to-the-republican-party/): The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie goes deep with the artists, activists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and visionaries who are making the world more libertarian--or at least more interesting--by challenging worn-out ideas and orthodoxies. Today's guest is Jeff Flake, former Arizona senator and U.S. ambassador to Turkey, and now head of the brand-new Institute of Politics at Arizona State...
- [Does Argentina's Bailout Prove Libertarians Wrong?](https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/20/does-argentinas-bailout-prove-libertarians-wrong/): This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch examine Argentina's $20 billion bailout and what it means for President Javier Milei's promise of a libertarian turnaround. They debate whether foreign aid undermines his free market agenda and what the deal suggests about Washington's own commitment to fiscal restraint. The editors also discuss this weekend's "No...
- [Can the ACLU Serve Progressives, Libertarians, and Conservatives?](https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/15/can-the-aclu-serve-progressives-and-conservatives/): The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie goes deep with the artists, activists, entrepreneurs, policymakers, and visionaries who are making the world more libertarian--or at least more interesting--by championing free minds and free markets. Today's guest is Ben Wizner, deputy legal director at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). He says that President Donald Trump's second term...
- [Trump's Art of the Deal for Peace in the Middle East](https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/13/trumps-art-of-the-deal-for-peace-in-the-middle-east/): This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch celebrate the release of over 2,000 hostages, political prisoners, and detainees, while considering whether President Donald Trump's Israel-Gaza deal represents a genuine step toward lasting peace in the Middle East. They discuss whether Trump's foreign policy approach is consistent, examining his recent strikes in Venezuela, and whether...
- [*Reason* Versus *National Review*: Is Mass Immigration Good for America?](https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/08/reason-versus-national-review-is-mass-immigration-good-for-america/): Reason and the Cato Institute go head-to-head with our friends at the National Review and the Center for Immigration Studies in a thought-provoking debate on one of America's most divisive issues: immigration. Resolution: Mass Immigration Is Good for America Affirmative: Reason's Katherine Mangu-Ward and Cato's Alex Nowrasteh Negative: National Review's Rich Lowry and Center for...
- [Are Americans Addicted to Conflict?](https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/08/are-americans-addicted-to-conflict/): The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie is a libertarian podcast that goes deep with the artists, entrepreneurs, politicians, and visionaries who are defining the 21st century. Today's guest is Lionel Shriver, the provocative writer best known for novels like We Need to Talk About Kevin, The Mandibles, and, most recently, Mania. We talked a few days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk,...
- [Does Bari Weiss Prove Woke Media Is Collapsing?](https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/06/does-bari-weiss-prove-woke-media-is-collapsing/): This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie are joined by Reason reporter Eric Boehm to discuss Paramount's $150 million acquisition of The Free Press and Bari Weiss' promotion to editor in chief at CBS News. They examine whether this represents a backlash to "woke" media, and debate if the success of outlets...
- [Defend Speech Even When Your Side Hates It](https://reason.com/podcast/2025/10/01/defend-speech-even-when-your-side-hates-it/): This week's guest host on The Reason Interview with Nick Gillespie is Billy Binion, who talks with Jenin Younes, a civil liberties attorney who first gained national attention when she sued the Biden administration for pressuring social media companies to censor content it didn't like. That case, Murthy v. Missouri, ultimately reached the Supreme Court....
- [Will a Shutdown Finally Shrink Government?](https://reason.com/podcast/2025/09/29/will-a-shutdown-finally-shrink-government/): This week, editors Peter Suderman, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Matt Welch discuss whether the impending government shutdown will actually rein in the federal bureaucracy. They consider whether there is anything to gain from a shutdown, how past shutdowns have played out, and whether the risk of growing executive power outweighs the risk of uncontrolled spending. They also examine...

## Latest: Video

- [How Oregon's Drug Experiment Backfired](https://reason.com/video/2025/10/01/how-oregons-drug-experiment-backfired/): In 2020, Oregon became the first state in America to decriminalize all drugs. Was it a catastrophic mistake? Has this famously progressive city been mugged by reality? Reason visited Portland and talked to drug users, politicians, and police to find out what actually happened and uncovered a very different story. As we shadowed Officer Eli Arnold,...
- [Donald Trump and Peter Thiel Are Using AI To Supercharge the Surveillance State](https://reason.com/video/2025/09/25/donald-trump-and-peter-thiel-are-using-ai-to-supercharge-the-surveillance-state/): Peter Thiel, the billionaire venture capitalist and PayPal co-founder, has a provocative theory about how the Antichrist could take over the Earth and enslave humanity. "My speculative thesis is that if the Antichrist were to come to power it would be by talking about Armageddon all the time," Thiel told Hoover Institution interviewer Peter Robinson...
- [Here's What Would Happen If We Seized All the Wealth From America's 800 Billionaires](https://reason.com/video/2025/09/09/heres-what-would-happen-if-we-seized-all-the-wealth-from-americas-800-billionaires/): Budget deficits of nearly $2 trillion--and speeding towards $4 trillion within a decade--will force increasingly difficult budgetary trade-offs. Many on the left, and sometimes the populist right, respond with: "Easy, just tax the rich. Problem solved." But is it really that easy? Can most of these soaring budget deficits be closed by higher taxes on...
- [The Socialist Transit Plan That Could Break NYC](https://reason.com/video/2025/09/05/the-socialist-transit-plan-that-could-break-nyc/): New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wants to make every city bus ride free. The democratic socialist assemblyman says the policy would cost about $700 million a year, which sounds like a lot until you compare it to New York state's $254.3 billion budget. Mamdani argues that when stacked against that number, his plan...
- [Great Moments in Unintended Consequences: Obscenity Blocks, Cooking Oil, and D.C.'s Tipped Minimum Wage (Vol. 19)](https://reason.com/video/2025/08/29/great-moments-in-unintended-consequences-obscenity-blocks-cooking-oil-and-d-c-s-tipped-minimum-wage-vol-19/): Great moments in unintended consequences--when something that sounds like a great idea goes horribly wrong. Watch the whole series. Part One: Bleep Creep The Year: 1996 The Problem: People on the internet swear too much! The Solution: A content filter that blocks profane words and naughty letter combinations. Sounds like a great idea, with the...
- [Why Do So Many Jobs Require a License?](https://reason.com/video/2025/08/22/why-do-so-many-jobs-require-a-license/): Around 20 percent of American workers must hold a professional license to do their job. Why? Andrew Heaton has an answer. And it's infuriating.
- [Why Does the Government Run Air Traffic Control?](https://reason.com/video/2025/07/29/why-does-the-government-run-air-traffic-control/): Air traffic control is probably something you don't spend much time thinking about--but when you board an airplane, you really want it to work. Unfortunately, the American air traffic control system is kind of a mess right now. It relies on outdated technology and is beset by staffing shortages. Fixing those problems is essential, but...
- [Remy: I Need a Boat (GOP Spending Version)](https://reason.com/video/2025/07/22/remy-i-need-a-boat-gop-spending-version/): You can't torpedo spending if you're torpedo spending. Parody of Morgan Wallen's "Need A Boat," written and performed by Remy. Music tracks mastered by Ben Karlstrom. LYRICS This draft bill don't look fine right now And it ain't doing the trick (No...) We're so dangerously indebted now And this adds to the debt. It adds...
- [There's No Evidence That Climate Change Has Increased the Rat Population](https://reason.com/video/2025/07/15/theres-no-evidence-that-climate-change-has-increased-the-rat-population/): As the earth gets warmer, there's one species that supposedly will really benefit."Climate Change is amazing," reported National Geographic. "If you're a rat." The horrific prospect of these pizza-dragging, toilet-bathing, plague-spreading, baby-eating, cannibalistic beasts swarming the sweltering streets of our major cities helps to explain why a recent study allegedly demonstrating a global warming-induced increase...
- [Trump Can Take Revenge on the 'Deep State': Pardon Snowden](https://reason.com/video/2025/07/08/trump-can-take-revenge-on-the-deep-state-pardon-snowden/): Twelve years after facilitating the largest national security leak in American history, Edward Snowden remains exiled in Russia, unable to set foot on U.S. soil without losing his freedom. A bipartisan consensus denouncing Snowden as a criminal traitor quickly formed in Washington, D.C., following the revelation of his identity in 2013: "I don't think Mr....
- [How Texas Beat California on Housing](https://reason.com/video/2025/06/30/how-texas-beat-california-on-housing/): San Francisco and Austin are both known for their trendsetting tech sectors and cultural scenes. But while Austin is enjoying the best of times, for San Francisco, it's starting to feel like the worst. San Francisco's population has dropped for the fourth year in a row. It saw one of the largest percentage declines among...
- [Tariff Fight: California vs. Texas](https://reason.com/video/2025/06/28/tariff-fight-california-vs-texas/): It's not who ends up worse off, but who ends up worst off.

## Latest: The Volokh Conspiracy

- [Hoover Fellow Program: Up-to-5-Year Paid In-Residence Position for Aspiring Academics (Including Aspiring Legal Academics)](https://reason.com/volokh/2025/11/03/hoover-fellow-program-up-to-5-year-paid-in-residence-position-for-aspiring-academics-including-aspiring-legal-academics/): The Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where I'm now a Senior Fellow, has long offered up-to-5-year paid in-residence positions (with no teaching obligations) in various fields. This year, we'll also be considering people who are interested in becoming legal academics. We expect the selection process to be highly competitive: The position is unusually generous, compared...
- [Journal of Free Speech Law: "Extramural Absolutism," by Deepa Das Acevedo](https://reason.com/volokh/2025/11/03/journal-of-free-speech-law-extramural-absolutism-by-deepa-das-acevedo/): This new article is here. The Introduction: Free speech absolutism has seemingly had its day, inasmuch as scholarly and public (if not judicial) opinion are increasingly hostile to the idea that more speech is invariably better. Yet, within academia, a close cousin of free speech absolutism--a principle of university management that this Article calls extramural absolutism--remains...
- [Second Annual Aspiring Free Speech Scholars Workshop](https://reason.com/volokh/2025/11/03/second-annual-aspiring-free-speech-scholars-workshop/): Second Annual Aspiring Free Speech Scholars Workshop jointly sponsored by the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law (ASU) and the Hoover Institution (Stanford University) Are you a law student, judicial law clerk, lawyer, or beginning academic hoping to publish a journal article on free speech law? Would you like the opportunity to get advice about...
- [Today in Supreme Court History: November 3, 1845](https://reason.com/volokh/2025/11/03/today-in-supreme-court-history-november-3-1845-7/): 11/3/1845: Chief Justice Edward Douglass White's birthday.
- [Monday Open Thread](https://reason.com/volokh/2025/11/03/monday-open-thread-131/)
- ["No Justice, No Peace" and True Threats](https://reason.com/volokh/2025/11/02/no-justice-no-peace-and-true-threats/): \[UPDATE: In retrospect I buried the lede here. On motion to dismiss, the court found that social media postings regarding a synagogue event did not violate the FACE act because they do not constitute a "true threat," because using the phrase "no Justice no peace" was not alleged to lead to violence. As I point...
- [My review of John Witt, The Radical Fund](https://reason.com/volokh/2025/11/02/my-review-of-john-witt-the-radical-fund/): Originally posted at Balkinization for a symposium on John Witt, The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America (Simon and Schuster, 2025). John Fabian Witt's The Radical Fund masterfully reconstructs the history of the American Fund for Public Service, better known as the Garland Fund. The Fund embodied both the promise and...
- [Today in Supreme Court History: November 2, 2010](https://reason.com/volokh/2025/11/02/today-in-supreme-court-history-november-2-2010-12/): 11/2/2010: Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Association argued.
- [Sunday Open Thread](https://reason.com/volokh/2025/11/02/sunday-open-thread-11/)
- [Six Things I Learned From Jodi Kantor's Latest Article](https://reason.com/volokh/2025/11/02/six-things-i-learned-from-jodi-kantors-latest-article/): Jodi Kantor continues her series of articles with inside scoops about the Supreme Court. In the past, I've been critical that she has focused only on the Court's conservatives. To her credit, Kantor has done a deep dive on the Court's three progressives. Much of what she wrote is consistent with things I've gleaned from...
- [Today in Supreme Court History: November 1, 1961](https://reason.com/volokh/2025/11/01/today-in-supreme-court-history-november-1-1961-13/): 11/1/1961: Planned Parenthood League of Connecticut opens center in New Haven, CT.
- [Is "Impeding Travel for Many Students" as Part of a Protest First Amendment-Protected Speech?](https://reason.com/volokh/2025/10/31/is-impeding-travel-for-many-students-as-part-of-a-protest-first-amendment-protected-speech/): Eugene has already blogged about Stand With Us v. MIT, a recent case in which the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a hostile environment claim against MIT brought on behalf of Jewish students. Eugene's post focused on the question of whether a university can be required to suppress speech intensely hostile...