Douglas County, Nevada, Public Library Director Amy Dodson insists that a proposed library diversity statement in support of the Black Lives Matter movement was not an anti-police statement. “It simply was meant to state our inclusivity at the library, that we are open and welcoming to everyone and we treat everyone equally,” she said. But…
Read More →Auburn University is currently struggling to stick to its principles on free expression. Hopefully they will get it right in the end, but it shouldn’t be this hard. Jesse Goldberg was hired as an adjunct to teach English classes starting this Fall at Auburn. His area of scholarly expertise, as he characterizes it, is in…
Read More →in challenge to Maryland’s handgun license requirement.
Read More →Wednesday, July 29, witnessed the virtual browbeating (via video conference) of the CEOs of four of America’s top companies, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google, by members of the House Judiciary Committee, most of whom never have produced anything other than intrusive statutes and convoluted regulations from which Congress often exempts itself.Echoing concerns embodied in…
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Read More →Actor Wilford Brimley passed away last week at the age of 85. Obituaries hailed the “mustachioed” actor’s roles in Cocoon, The Natural and The Thing but passed over what may have been his most convincing performance. In the 1981 Absence of Malice, Miami union boss Joey Diaz has been murdered but the authorities have…
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Read More →The court rejects the claims that Ohio’s ballot-access laws have become unconstitutionally coercive due to the pandemic.
Read More →Wherein we ask, “Is suffering necessary?”
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Read More →Unpacking TikTok freakouts, mail-in voting controversies, and money printers going brrr, on the Reason Roundtable podcast.
Read More →From Judge Katherine Polk Failla (S.D.N.Y.) last week in Petroleos de Venezuela S.A. v. MUFG Union Bank, N.A., a commercial dispute in which the judge may have to apply Venezuelan law, and would therefore consider a report of an expert on Venezuelan law: On July 7, 2020, Plaintiffs filed a letter motion requesting that the Court…
Read More →Microsoft confirmed it’s in talks to acquire TikTok, in a last-ditch effort to save the young folks’ precious app before it gets #cancelled by the US government.
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Read More →A response to my co-blogger Josh Blackman.
Read More →PORTLAND, OR—Christians across the nation breathed a sigh of relief when investigative journalists discovered that the “Bibles” allegedly being burned by protesters in Portland were actually not Bibles at all, but just some book call…
Read More → U.S.—To fill out empty churches, the Episcopal Church has announced a permanent switch to cardboard cutout parishioners.
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Will the U.S. be next?
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