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"Is the Supreme Court Legitimate?," a recent panel discussion between me, Gerard Bradley (Notre Dame), and Richard Epstein (Chicago). Now on video.
youtu.be/twknPAX7EGk?... via @YouTube
youtu.be/twknPAX7EGk?... via @YouTube
Is the Supreme Court Legitimate?
YouTube video by Center for Religion, Culture & Democracy
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December 7, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"Is the Supreme Court Legitimate?," a recent panel discussion between me, Gerard Bradley (Notre Dame), and Richard Epstein (Chicago). Now on video.
youtu.be/twknPAX7EGk?... via @YouTube
youtu.be/twknPAX7EGk?... via @YouTube
An interesting conversation, on the Danube Institute's podcast from Budapest, with Philip Pilkington and Jacob Williams, delightful interlocutors with dangerously wrong notions about liberalism.
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Liberalism's Last Stand | Danube Culture
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December 6, 2025 at 4:08 PM
An interesting conversation, on the Danube Institute's podcast from Budapest, with Philip Pilkington and Jacob Williams, delightful interlocutors with dangerously wrong notions about liberalism.
open.spotify.com/episode/2cZf...
open.spotify.com/episode/2cZf...
If any of you happen to be in Budapest on Dec. 3, stop by the Danube Institute for my event and say hi.
danubeinstitute.hu/en/events/is...
danubeinstitute.hu/en/events/is...
Is Liberalism a Threat to Religious Liberty? - Danube Institute
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November 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
If any of you happen to be in Budapest on Dec. 3, stop by the Danube Institute for my event and say hi.
danubeinstitute.hu/en/events/is...
danubeinstitute.hu/en/events/is...
Some students at my university, Northwestern, have been protesting and refusing a requirement that they watch a training video about antisemitism. This sorry episode is a wasted opportunity for education in an area where ignorance is rife.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Some students at my university, Northwestern, have been protesting and refusing a requirement that they watch a training video about antisemitism. This sorry episode is a wasted opportunity for education in an area where ignorance is rife.
thehill.com/opinion/educ...
thehill.com/opinion/educ...
Trump is trying to take away from trans veterans benefits that they've already earned.
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Trump Is Trying to Take Benefits From Veterans That They’ve Already Earned
One hardly knows where to begin.
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August 20, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Trump is trying to take away from trans veterans benefits that they've already earned.
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Supreme Court has misrepresented the Establishment Clause history on which it purports to rely, arbitrarily narrowing its description of the paradigmatic wrong the clause aims to end.
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The New Establishment Clause Hallmarks Test: Sources and Distortions
In the recent case of Kennedy v. Bremerton, the Supreme Court abandoned Lemon v. Kurtzman, the 50-year-old principal Establishment Clause test. Inst
papers.ssrn.com
July 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The Supreme Court has misrepresented the Establishment Clause history on which it purports to rely, arbitrarily narrowing its description of the paradigmatic wrong the clause aims to end.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Is it a political mistake to kill your voters and their children? That hypothesis will soon be tested.
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thehill.com/opinion/heal...
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June 21, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Is it a political mistake to kill your voters and their children? That hypothesis will soon be tested.
thehill.com/opinion/heal...
thehill.com/opinion/heal...
I generally don't look for wisdom from politicians. So I'm mightily impressed by the remarkable insightful Rep. Sarah McBride, and agree with every single thing she says in this long interview. Required reading.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
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Opinion | Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights
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June 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I generally don't look for wisdom from politicians. So I'm mightily impressed by the remarkable insightful Rep. Sarah McBride, and agree with every single thing she says in this long interview. Required reading.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...
The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues has published a symposium on my book, BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE: HOW LIBERTARIAN PHILOSOPHY WAS CORRUPTED BY DELUSION AND GREED.
digital.sandiego.edu/jcli/vol26/i...
digital.sandiego.edu/jcli/vol26/i...
The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues | Vol 26 | Iss 2
digital.sandiego.edu
June 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues has published a symposium on my book, BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE: HOW LIBERTARIAN PHILOSOPHY WAS CORRUPTED BY DELUSION AND GREED.
digital.sandiego.edu/jcli/vol26/i...
digital.sandiego.edu/jcli/vol26/i...
It’s refreshing to hear Bill Gates say it about Elon Musk: “the world’s richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...
The $200 Billion Gamble: Bill Gates’s Plan to Wind Down His Foundation
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May 9, 2025 at 12:10 PM
It’s refreshing to hear Bill Gates say it about Elon Musk: “the world’s richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...
For those who are interested, a somewhat specialized conversation between myself, Michael McConnell, and Vincent Phillip Muñoz on originalism and religious exemptions:
www.civitasinstitute.org/research/rel...
www.civitasinstitute.org/research/rel...
Religious Exemptions?: What the Free Exercise Clause Means |
A conversation among three religious liberty scholars on the Free Exercise Clause’s original meaning.
www.civitasinstitute.org
April 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
For those who are interested, a somewhat specialized conversation between myself, Michael McConnell, and Vincent Phillip Muñoz on originalism and religious exemptions:
www.civitasinstitute.org/research/rel...
www.civitasinstitute.org/research/rel...
Steve Vladeck is characteristically clear and accurate in explaining what the Supreme Court just did in the deportation cases.
www.stevevladeck.com/p/140-the-di...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/140-the-di...
140. The Disturbing Myopia of Trump v. J.G.G.
In normal times, it might be possible to defend the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on Monday vacating a pair of temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act case. But these aren't normal times.
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April 8, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Steve Vladeck is characteristically clear and accurate in explaining what the Supreme Court just did in the deportation cases.
www.stevevladeck.com/p/140-the-di...
www.stevevladeck.com/p/140-the-di...
The principal virtue of Neil Gorsuch's new book is the light it unintentionally sheds on some of the Supreme Court’s least defensible decisions.
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The Mystery of Neil Gorsuch | Los Angeles Review of Books
Andrew Koppelman delves into Neil Gorsuch and Janie Nitze’s “Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law.”
lareviewofbooks.org
March 19, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The principal virtue of Neil Gorsuch's new book is the light it unintentionally sheds on some of the Supreme Court’s least defensible decisions.
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
John Wilkes Booth was a racist murderer, but that apparently wasn’t the worst thing about him. The worst thing was that he used “the N-word.”
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Misguided anti-racism campaign cancels college Sondheim production
Theater is a potent medium for showing us the truth of what people do to one another.
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March 11, 2025 at 4:33 PM
John Wilkes Booth was a racist murderer, but that apparently wasn’t the worst thing about him. The worst thing was that he used “the N-word.”
thehill.com/opinion/civi...
thehill.com/opinion/civi...
I'm looking forward to participating in this online symposium on religion and secularism, run by Chicago-Kent Law, this Friday, Feb. 21.
studentorgs.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/...
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In Search of Common Ground: Religion and Secularism in a Liberal Democratic Society - Chicago-Kent Law Review
2025 Chicago-Kent Law Review Online Live Symposium Symposium Editors Steven J. Heyman, Chicago-Kent College of Law Kathleen A. Brady, Emory University Chicago-Kent College of Law February 21, 2025 Con...
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February 18, 2025 at 4:20 PM
I'm looking forward to participating in this online symposium on religion and secularism, run by Chicago-Kent Law, this Friday, Feb. 21.
studentorgs.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/...
studentorgs.kentlaw.iit.edu/cklawreview/...
Hadley Arkes's natural law arguments against gay rights and abortion neglect important aspects of the natural law tradition.
journals.law.harvard.edu/jlpp/critiqu...
journals.law.harvard.edu/jlpp/critiqu...
Critiquing Hadley Arkes’s not-so-mere Natural Law Theory – Andrew Koppelman
Critiquing Hadley Arkes’s not-so-mere Natural Law Theory Andrew Koppelman* Law can’t be separated from morality, because law is a kind of human conduct. So is compliance with the law. Morality co…
journals.law.harvard.edu
February 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Hadley Arkes's natural law arguments against gay rights and abortion neglect important aspects of the natural law tradition.
journals.law.harvard.edu/jlpp/critiqu...
journals.law.harvard.edu/jlpp/critiqu...
Trump would have sent Jewish refugees back to Nazi Germany.
Trump Administration Revokes Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
Trump Administration Revokes Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
Trump Administration Revokes Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S.
The decision to revoke Temporary Protected Status signals that President Trump will continue to dismantle a program that aims to protect migrants from potentially dangerous countries.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Trump would have sent Jewish refugees back to Nazi Germany.
Trump Administration Revokes Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
Trump Administration Revokes Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...
I appeared on Chris Staron's Truce podcast, which examines the world from a Christian perspective. We explored the tensions that arise as Christians are increasingly drawn toward libertarianism. The conversation is here:
trucepodcast.com/s6e18-how-li...
trucepodcast.com/s6e18-how-li...
How Libertarians Have Invaded Evangelicalism
Ayn Rand's libertarian ideas have infiltrated evangelicalism. In some circles Christians are taught to be selfish and ignore the poor. Are these the teachings of Jesus? In this episode we learn what l...
trucepodcast.com
January 14, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I appeared on Chris Staron's Truce podcast, which examines the world from a Christian perspective. We explored the tensions that arise as Christians are increasingly drawn toward libertarianism. The conversation is here:
trucepodcast.com/s6e18-how-li...
trucepodcast.com/s6e18-how-li...
Jerome Copulsky’s “American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order” is an engaging historical survey of Christian theocratic opponents of American liberalism, from the American Revolution to the present. I review it at Lawfare: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/divi...
Divine Madness
A review of Jerome Copulsky, “American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order” (Yale University Press, 2024).
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November 27, 2024 at 3:34 PM
Jerome Copulsky’s “American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order” is an engaging historical survey of Christian theocratic opponents of American liberalism, from the American Revolution to the present. I review it at Lawfare: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/divi...
But these are in some ways equivalent: I can make you ashamed only if you and I hold ourselves accountable to at least some of the same standards.
November 24, 2024 at 4:41 PM
But these are in some ways equivalent: I can make you ashamed only if you and I hold ourselves accountable to at least some of the same standards.
When I'm in a friendly mood, I say that I speak at the Federalist Society to look for common ground. When I feel less friendly, I say that I go there hoping to make at least some people in the audience feel ashamed of themselves.
November 24, 2024 at 4:40 PM
When I'm in a friendly mood, I say that I speak at the Federalist Society to look for common ground. When I feel less friendly, I say that I go there hoping to make at least some people in the audience feel ashamed of themselves.
At a panel at the Federalist Society, I was hissed by the audience when I called for "flat out redistribution of wealth." Then I got them to abruptly stop hissing. See www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJWd... at 1:39.
Welcome & Opening Remarks and Showcase Panel I [NLC2024]
YouTube video by The Federalist Society
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November 24, 2024 at 4:39 PM
At a panel at the Federalist Society, I was hissed by the audience when I called for "flat out redistribution of wealth." Then I got them to abruptly stop hissing. See www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJWd... at 1:39.