A Round-Up of Posts in the Volokh Conspiracy Symposium on "Our American Story: The Search for a New National Narrative"
A listing with links to all the posts in the series.
A listing with links to all the posts in the series.
Steve Sachs and I defend originalism against charges of "law office history."
The sixth post in the Volokh Conspiracy symposium on "Our American Story: The Search for a Shared National Narrative" (ed. by Joshua Claybourn).
The symposium will include posts by contributors to this new book on what makes America and its history distinctive.
Historian Daniel Okrent looks back at the bigoted "intellectual justification" for anti-immigration policies.
A history lesson for Americans
Historian Daniel Okrent's new book, The Guarded Gate, recounts the history of bigotry, eugenics, and the "intellectual justification" of anti-immigration policies.
The Green New Deal is a path to a more militarized and authoritarian society.
A pair of political scientists think they've identified a new kind of conspiracy thinking. They haven't.
Friday A/V Club: Back in the '80s, Bernie Sanders had a public-access TV show. The archives are now online.
My new book chapter is now available for free on SSRN. It desccribes how "voting with your feet" played a central role in American history, how foot voting is at the heart of much of the nation's success, and the recent rise of dangerous new obstacles to foot-voting. Part of a new book, "Our American Story: The Search for a National Narrative."
Why May 1 should be a day to honor the victims of the ideology that took more innocent lives than any other.
Technological leaps and political upheaval go together like spaghetti and meatballs.
David Friedman’s Legal Systems Very Different from Ours explores the costs and benefits of various legal systems across time.
Friday A/V Club: Springtime for Mao
The splintering of international economic interdependence is a worrying sign for peace through trade.
Political theorist Jacob Levy reminds us that the arc of history doesn't always bend towards justice. Moral retrogression has happened before, and could well occur again.
The president of the American Enterprise Institute says we need to reboot politics and that libertarians may hold the key.
Paul Cadmus's Herrin Massacre is "The Painting Our Art Critic Can't Stop Thinking About." If only he'd thought harder.
Plus: Reason web-culture coverage past...introducing the millennial presidential candidate...another Seattle "sex trafficking" case based on nonsense
Learning from Robert McNamara's mistakes and magnanimity
Environmental Protection Agency
That's wrong. Promoting fear hinders more than helps environmental progress.
Friday A/V Club: That time the authorities set 10,000 packages of opium, morphine, and cocaine on fire in San Francisco's Marshall Square
Friday A/V Club: A little chat about Stalin
Popular video game should prevail in lawsuit over its depiction of the infamous detective agency.
Nancy Bass Wyden says historic designation would compromise her ownership rights and mean dealing with bureaucrats who "do not know how to run a bookstore."
Jesse Walker's speech at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
"I'm not asking for money or a tax rebate," says Nancy Bass Wyden. "Just leave me alone."
But losing taught libertarians how to win
"If any question why we died/Tell them, because our fathers lied," wrote Rudyard Kipling of the Great War. Think about that, not contemporary politics.
What a conspiracy theorist, a Vietnam War deserter, and a Trump adviser have in common
A generation later, three major themes still resonate.
As U.S. campus politics deteriorate, a global movement of young libertarians finds its footing.
The topic: art and conspiracy
The future 1984 scribe debated pacifism with Dr. Alex Comfort in 1942.
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