The Dangers of Cheap Speech
November 21, 2023
Richard L. Hasen— In a remarkably prescient article in a 1995 Yale Law Journal symposium titled “Emerging Media Technology and the First Amendment,” a UCLA law professor, Eugene Volokh, looked… READ MORE
Category: Current Affairs
Celebrating The Rediscovery of America
November 16, 2023
The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History has been named the winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction. Finalists celebrated at the 74th… READ MORE
All-You-Can-Fly Airlines: Market Selection Today
November 15, 2023
Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, and Ray Fisman— About a year ago, Frontier Airlines rolled out its GoWild! All-You-Can-FlyTM pass, offering the possibility of a year of unlimited air travel for… READ MORE
Archival Parallels: Donald Trump and Jefferson Davis
November 7, 2023
Yael A. Sternhell— Early in his presidency, commentators began calling Donald Trump “the first Confederate president.”1 There were obvious reasons why the sobriquet seemed to take—Trump spoke in a language… READ MORE
It’s Not Deglobalization, It’s Regionalization
October 26, 2023
Shannon K. O’Neil— Decoupling and derisking, deglobalization, slowbalization, and localization. Journalists, columnists, and more than a few authors are touting the end of an era of hyperglobalization characterized by open… READ MORE
Migration and the End of Empire
October 5, 2023
Peter Heather — However you line up the different factors involved, there’s no doubt that immigration played a major role in the unraveling of the western half of the Roman… READ MORE
China Has Peaked? It Can Still Change World Order
September 28, 2023
John M. Owen IV— The smart money, it seems, is now saying that China has peaked. The slowing of the country’s economic growth is starting to seem like more than a… READ MORE
Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss, and America’s Public Lands
September 12, 2023
John D. Leshy— What lessons and opportunities do our public lands—which occupy nearly one-third of the nation plus vast areas of submerged lands off our coasts—offer in addressing the interrelated… READ MORE
A Fundamental Right
September 7, 2023
Charles R. Geisst— Since antiquity, the idea of basic fairness and equity in society has been hotly debated. In many cases, the ideas remained general and very fuzzy, content with… READ MORE
How Cold War Intellectuals Destroyed Liberalism to Save It
September 1, 2023
Samuel Moyn— The Cold War ended decades ago. It seems like, well, ancient history. The same must seem true of the form of liberalism that emerged in the middle of… READ MORE
Between Memory and History