by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Jan 5, 2023 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
On the second anniversary of the invasion of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, it’s worth considering how politics—and especially presidential elections—have increasingly become like warfare. A pair of developments—one legislative, one administrative—have raised the...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Dec 13, 2022 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
Amid growing revelations about government involvement in social-media censorship, it’s no longer enough to talk simply about tech censorship. The problem should be understood as gov-tech censorship. The Biden White House has threatened tech companies and federal...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 21, 2022 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
What will be the fate of free speech in the United States? The answer is coming soon from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Netchoice v. Paxton. Last year, Texas protected free speech from Big Tech censorship by passing a statute finding that the...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Feb 9, 2022 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
What should be done about law-school deans and others in legal institutions who censor, cancel, blacklist, refuse to hire, fire, “investigate” and otherwise threaten others for their opinions? A partial answer lies in reminding them that their misconduct may...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jan 12, 2022 | Covid-19 Articles, Opinion, Philip Hamburger
The Biden administration has imposed COVID-19 vaccinations on all healthcare workers at Medicare and Medicaid participating facilities as a condition of federal funding. When this condition came before the Supreme Court last Friday in Biden v. Missouri, the justices...
by Ruslan Moldovanov | Oct 28, 2021 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
It is flattering that a commentator as astute as Andrew McCarthy would respond to my Wall Street Journal article questioning the current public-school system. But it is dismaying that, in “The Wrong Way to Fight Progressive Indoctrination in Public Schools,”he...