(NA) The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has published an updated and expanded version of its entry on “The Ethics and Rationality of Voting.” It is authored by Georgetown Prof. Jason Brennan, a leading expert on democratic theory. Here is his summary of the issues covered: This entry focuses on six major questions concerning the rationality […]
From ACLU’s Mar. 4 Open Letter to U.S. College and University Presidents: This letter is prompted by two Executive Orders—Executive Order 14161, titled “Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and other National Security and Public Safety Threats,” signed on January 20, 2025, and Executive Order 14188, titled “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism,” signed on […]
From the motion for a TRO and preliminary injunction in Texas A&M Queer Empowerment Council v. Mahomes, just filed yesterday by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (JT Morris, Adam Steinbaugh & Jeffrey Zeman): For years, Plaintiff Queer Empowerment Council has exercised its unquestionable First Amendment right to organize, fund, and host an annual […]
What does the dramatic collapse of talks between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump and J.D. Vance reveal about Trump’s foreign policy, Vance’s ideology, and the future trajectory of MAGA? Just asking questions. James Pogue, who has written extensively about the American New Right and who predicted in 2022 that Vance would be “hugely […]
Tomorrow will be the fifth anniversary of then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s first statewide emergency declaration issued in response to COVID-19, setting up a long series of orders shuttering down businesses, closing schools, and ordering people to stay in their homes. When enacted in early March 2020, Cuomo’s order was the consensus policy response to […]
A prison guard strike across New York, which has sent many state-wide correctional facilities into chaos, may soon see some officers exchanging their positions of authority for a cell themselves if they are not able to cement a new agreement. Guards mobilized the strike, which began February 17, in response to working conditions they say […]
Last month, Reason reported on the United Kingdom’s demand for access to any Apple user’s digital information stored in its cloud storage service, iCloud. Since those data are end-to-end encrypted by default, this would require the tech giant to create an intentional vulnerability in its security protocols—the likes of which could be exploited by sophisticated […]
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) draws two extreme reactions from budget-focused observers. On one side, you have cynics rolling their eyes and arguing that the truly consequential problem is not overpriced government boondoggles but rather entitlements like Medicare and Social Security and interest on the national debt. On the other, you have optimists who […]
We often think of the Supreme Court as the apex institution. The Constitution called for the creation of the Supreme Court, but inferior courts were left to Congress’s discretion. From early on in the Republic, it was understood that the Supreme Court, and not the lower courts, would have the final say on matters of […]
A recent paper published by the Centre for Economic Policy Research, titled “Access to Opportunity in the Sciences: Evidence From the Nobel Laureates,” found that 67 percent of science Nobel Prize winners have “fathers from above the 90th income percentile in their birth country.” The authors, affiliated with Imperial College London, Dartmouth College, Princeton University, […]