Here's the third in my series of essays for the Knight Institute's Reconstructing Free Expression project. In it, I propose a few methods for bypassing the president (this one and any future ones) for the disbursal of federal funds to higher education and other knowledge-producing institutions.
On the blog, Prof Neil Buchanan has some further thoughts on AI's shortcomings. 👇
The Roberts Court's conservatives are not originalists, as even leading originalists acknowledge with respect to leading Roberts Court cases like Dobbs and SFFA. So what are they? As @espinsegall.bsky.social explains on the blog, the answer is obvious: They're conservative Republican ideologues. 👇
Wait! Lots of people are liking this post, but it turns out I stupidly misread the relevant text, so my assumption that ratification of the original First Amendment would do this w/o congressional approval is wrong. I've corrected it on the blog. D'oh!
Today on the blog I offer another outside-the-box political reform: increase the size of the House of Reps. If Congress won't do it by statute, the states can by ratifying what was proposed in 1789 as the original First Amendment and nearly secured ratification in the early Republic. 👇
In my latest column for @justiaverdict.bsky.social, I explain why, after tomorrow's Maine primary, Democrats rightly put off by Graham Platner's many flaws should nonetheless plan to hold their noses and vote for him in the general, given the stakes.