My suggestion was that “directional” libertarians and classical liberals ally rather than question one another’s authenticity. In response to: Can Libertarianism Be a Governing Philosophy? More Responses No, But Classical Liberalism Can by Nathan W. Schlueter If libertarians are not prepared to accept the consequences of absolute non-aggression, they should...
The suppression of the Green Movement last time around widened the gulf between Iran's elite and its people....
In her career as a journalist, Alisa Roth has written about people in what she calls “forgotten communities”⸺such as immigrants and the poor. But when she began focusing on the mentally ill trapped in the U.S. justice system, after a friend’s brother was locked up,...
On the rare occasion when the public meaning diverges from the legal meaning, the public meaning probably ought to prevail. In response to: The Legal Turn More Responses Original Methods Originalism Is Already the Norm by Ilya Shapiro Unless one thinks that the Constitution doesn’t matter or shouldn’t be enforced,...
It is axiomatic in the current global economy that every business needs to have a China strategy. Most business enterprises are drawn to the world’s most populous country and second-largest economy. But while China represents an attractive business marketplace, it can also in many respects...
As I have previously noted (for example here), a number of reports have analyzed the 2017 approved securities class action lawsuit settlements in statistical and numeric terms, such as the aggregate, average, and mean settlement amounts. But what do the 2017 securities suit settlements look...
The scandal at Louisiana’s Union Parish Detention Center began with the routine medical screening of a 17-year-old bi-polar female inmate detoxing from methamphetamine in an isolation cell. A nurse asked the girl, booked on burglary counts, whether she ever had been the victim of sexual...
On Friday the justices will meet for their April 13 conference; our “petitions to watch” for that conference will be available soon. The calendar for the April sitting, which will begin on April 16, is available on the Supreme Court’s website. The post This week at the...
Most states compensate people who were wrongfully imprisoned in amounts that can reach millions of dollars. Exonerees can also win settlements from police agencies, and both kinds of awards can attract predators, reports The Marshall Project in the New York Times. North Carolina paid $750,000...
Newspapers in the U.K. are reporting that a cruise ship passenger, who used a cruise in the Caribbean last fall as a cover to smuggle cocaine, has been jailed. The cruise in question occurred last October (of 2017) and apparently involved the P&O Arcadia. BBC News reports...