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Laissez Faire Books, the leading seller of libertarian, classical liberal, and free market-oriented titles, is having its semi-annual 15% off sale. This is a great opportunity to pick up Randy’s Restoring the Lost Constitution. Amazon is selling it for its list price of $32.50, but LFB has it for $24.50, plus an additional 15% off, […]

Strange article by Aluf Benn in Ha’aretz, arguing that what Sharon is asking from Bush in return for withdrawal from Gaza is de facto recognition of Israeli annexation of the Etzion bloc of settlements, the same settlements Israel would have acquired under the Camp David proposals of 2000. Benn concludes that Israel has fought 3.5 […]

“Publishing a book has always been a risky prospect, with success all too often dictated by events beyond an author’s or publisher’s control: a glowing review, selection by a book club, an invitation to appear on radio or television. But there’s another path to literary success, at least for a lucky few: litigation. Paradoxically, a […]

Who better to write on this topic than Daniel Drezner? Try Brink Lindsay as well.

From the Guardian: David Winnick, a member of the Commons home affairs select committee, said only somebody who was “psychotic” would question anti-discrimination laws.

Those interested in slippery slope arguments (which must, by now, include almost all Volokh readers) won’t want to miss Julian Sanchez’s post carefully distinguishing slippery slope arguments from the reductio ad absurdum. Those interested in distinguished University of Chicago libertarians, comics, Neil Gaiman, and intellectual property(a set which I’m sure includes at least somebody besides […]

Does anyone know where I can quickly find a good time series on average jury verdicts (or some other similar proxy for volume of litigation in some form) from the early 1960s to the late 1990s?

Sharleen Mondal’s blog has a worthwhile debate between Sharleen and “Mike” over Mr. Bowles, 9-11 Field Organizer for the ACLU. Sharleen argues, contra what I have written, that Bowles did nothing improper in leading a “silent” protest of a Daniel Pipes speech, nor has he supported Palestinian terrorism. Mike gives further details supporting the view […]

Meryl Yourish reports: A student group called Supporters of a Safe Israel at Virginia Commonwealth University wants to bring the [very controversial] Daniel Pipes to VCU for a lecture. However, due to the current anti-Israel climate on many college campuses, whenever a group brings a pro-Israel speaker, the colleges demand extra security due to the […]

On Saturday, March 27th, the Boston University Libertarian Society is sponsoring its 1st Annual Liberty Conference. It is open to any and all students who wish to attend, and many have registered from other schools and cities. I am speaking on “Anarchism and the Constitution.” Other speakers are: Jeffrey Miron (Boston University), James Stacy Taylor […]

Spencer Ackerman responds to my defense of the Iraqi Transitional Administrative Law. Other furthers: Rich Lowry has acknowledged the mistake I pointed out yesterday in his debate with Al Franken I did indeed misread Franken in the way described below–and did it in a very snotty way. I duly stand corrected. While we’re involved in […]

Why do the poobahs of the world of “Middle East Studies” recoil in horror any time anyone threatens to call attention to their discipline? Because it is such a relentlessly one-sided, politiciized discipline that it could not possibly withstand public scrutiny. The latest evidence? The refusal of the Middle East Studies Association–which has slathered all […]

Erin O’Connor reports (and I heard this story when I spoke at Emory about speech codes and academic freedom on Tuesday) that when the College Republicans at Emory sought funding for the student council to bring David Horowitz to speak on campus, two university administrators appeared before the council to urge it not to approve […]

I blogged a few weeks ago about the school’s forbidding the shirt; I’m glad that the school has changed its views: A Denbigh High School student prevented from wearing an anti-abortion sweatshirt in school last month by a school administrator now can wear it after a Michigan law center raised the possibility of a lawsuit. […]

Here is an excellent profile of one of the world’s leading singers. I hadn’t known she got her start singing Gershwin to American serviceman after the war. If you don’t know her incandescent recordings of Brahms, Schubert, Mahler and others, go buy some. Here is a link to a fan site about her.