I cited it in my Prospect piece yesterday, but for people interested in the history of the Commerce Clause, I strongly recommend Jack Balkin's forthcoming article. I would add the caveat that I don't think that Balkin's liberal originalism overcomes the objections I have to...
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When it's done by white American conservatives.
Shorter Verbatim Sasha Volokh: "I don’t speak for all libertarians, but I think there’s a good case to be made that taxing people to protect the Earth from an asteroid,.
Another reminder that Breitbart is essentially never right about anything, and a high percentage of his reprehensible smear jobs involve race-baiting.
It's early in the day, but Matt Yglesias has a good one: Right now we have conservatives simultaneously calling for huge spending cuts and also getting the [lion's] share of.
Jay Rosen has been making some fun of cyber-pragmatists, whose reminders that we know little about the link between social media and democratization movements apparently constitute a "genre" in which:.
I will have some further commerce clause thoughts either today or tomorrow. Until then, I note that for some reason the failure of this not-at-all-cheesy historical reenactment of Gibbons v. Ogden is not seen as one of the most unjust exclusions in the history of...
Remember that alleged interest in democracy that so many American hawks developed as a pretext after the initial justification for the Iraq War held up like a balsa-wood drone in.
I have an article up at the Prospect on the hot new trend in arguments that policies that Republicans supported until Obama started supporting them represent a massive threat to.
Alas, Jethro Tull Darcy and the Secret Society were robbed. Still, it's heartening that even an awards organization so relentlessly committed to mediocrity in the winners of its major awards can stumble over something good. I've always liked Arcade Fire, but while I can understand...
There seems to be some confusion in comments here about what "putting women on a pedestal" in the pejorative sense means. This, for instance, isn't that. For an actual example,.
Edroso has a good list. Michele Bachmann's recent assertion that the framers who agreed to a Constitution that explicitly and implicitly protected slavery and were long dead before slavery was.