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Justice Clarence Thomas on the Declaration of Independence
3+ hour, 21+ min ago (167+ words) Remarks by the current Supreme Court's longest-serving justice that stoked controversy. Jonathan H. Adler | 4. 26. 2026 12: 50 PM On April 15, Justice Clarence Thomas delivered a lecture at the University of Texas at Austin in honor of the 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Justice…...
Open Thread
13+ hour, 12+ min ago (53+ words) Eugene Volokh | 4. 26. 2026 3: 00 AM NEXT: The Hinkley Hilton C. Jarrett Dieterle | 4. 25. 2026 7: 00 AM Brian Doherty | From the May 2026 issue Jacob Sullum | 4. 24. 2026 5: 05 PM Meagan O'Rourke | 4. 24. 2026 4: 28 PM Autumn Billings | 4. 24. 2026 2: 29 PM...
The Hinkley Hilton
17+ hour, 55+ min ago (265+ words) Josh Blackman | 4. 25. 2026 10: 16 PM This evening, immediately after I turned my phone on, I saw headlines about shots fired at the Washington Hilton where President Trump was attending the White House Correspondents Dinner. For the second week in a row, I…...
Thought Experiment: It's 2030, and the Newsom Justice Department Indicts a Conservative Group for Paying Antifa Leaders
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (384+ words) Eugene Volokh | 4. 25. 2026 11: 20 AM The Justice Department says all this was fraud on the donors, and also that in the process the group had employees open bank accounts using group funds but claiming the funds were personal, and thus lied to…...
'Front Street' explores homeless cities in Silicon Valley
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (600+ words) One lesson of'Front Street, Brian Barth's book of immersive reporting from the sprawling homeless encampments of Silicon Valley, is that there is no full-bore solution to the problems presented by the homeless. The unhoused, and the larger community they aggravate,…...
Allowing censorship of military retirees like Sen. Mark Kelly would set a chilling and dangerous precedent
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (163+ words) There is no historical precedent for carving out such an exception. Since the Founding, FIRE notes, former military officers, including the 274 Revolutionary War veterans who later served in the House of Representatives, have played a prominent role in politics, and…...
Civil liberties groups sue for information on ice's speech-chilling subpoenas
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (224+ words) Is the Trump administration trying to unmask anonymous online critics in violation of the First Amendment? Two lawsuits have been filed recently to force Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to turn over information…...
Hasan Piker and Jia Tolentino: The leftists who think stealing is great
2+ day, 5+ hour ago (207+ words) You are reading Free Media from Robby Soave and Reason. Get more of Robby's on-the-media, disinformation, and free speech coverage. And yet, their conversation includes a full-throated defense of shoplifting: Piker is not being facetious: His brand of left-wing politics…...
U. S. -Iran war transitions into nautical stalemate with piracy and saber rattling
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (1109+ words) Shoot and Kill. The U. S. -Iran conflict is evolving from a hot war of dueling air strikes to a nautical stalemate with lots of piracy and saber (cutlass?) rattling. The two-week ceasefire between the two countries that was supposed to expire…...
Congress still has a chance to curb Section 702 surveillance abuses
2+ day, 9+ hour ago (322+ words) Enacted in 2008, Section 702 of FISA authorized the ongoing interception (originally under executive authority) of online communications involving alleged national security threats through "the targeting of non-United States persons," as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence puts it. Just…...