(David Bernstein) Summarized in two headlines: Today: Chomsky helped lobby Hawking to boycott Israel event Last October: Islamic University of Gaza awards honorary doctorate to Chomsky You might assume that Chomsky at least avoided meeti...

(Kenneth Anderson) Further to Co-Conspirator Jonathan’s post on the IRS’ admission that it singled out “tea party” and “patriot” groups for inquiries into their activities, I discover that I’ve q...

(Kenneth Anderson) Law students thinking ahead about not just passing the bar exam, but also the fitness and character requirements might take a lesson from a former student of mine.  He contacted me with some alarm a few days ago to tel...

(Eugene Volokh) I’d like my First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic students to read some excellent amicus briefs, to see what works, and to see the various kinds of briefs that work. I have some samples, but I’d love to see mor...

(Jonathan H. Adler) Earlier this week I took Steve Benen to task for suggesting that state governments could not refuse to enforce federal laws.  Benen had suggested that such decisions were tantamount to nullification. (A claim he has w...

(Jonathan H. Adler) Some conservative and libertarian groups have long suspected that the Internal Revenue Service has targeted right-leaning non-profits for extra scrutiny, but such allegations were always difficult to prove (and often ...

(Ilya Somin) With Rhode Island and Delaware recently becoming the tenth and eleventh states to permit same-sex marriage and Minnesota likely to soon become the twelfth, now is a good time to reconsider the impact of judicial decisions re...

(Eugene Volokh) I’m pleased to say that three of the six items in The Post: Good Scholarship from the Internet, vol. 3 — a new journal from the Journal of Law people that reprints blog posts that its editorial board found esp...

(David Bernstein) But it sure sounds like it. Here is University of Maryland Maryland Institute College of Art philosophy professor Firmin DeBrabander, writing in the New York Times Opinionator blog: But why do we presume individual age...

(Ilya Somin) At Deadspin, Robert Fischer-Baum has an interesting piece cataloguing the highest-paid state employees in each of the fifty states. Forty of fifty are coaches, all but one of them in either football or basketball. As Fischer...