7.14.14
When Government Violates Contracts
Defining Ideas
A new case reveals how weak property rights, government misconduct, and special interests lead to major social losses.
Blogs
7.7.14
Hobby Lobby vs. the Contraceptive Mandate
Defining Ideas
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority should have been more principled in its defense of religious liberty.
6.30.14
Wrong on Abortion Picketing
Defining Ideas
In McCullen v. Coakley, the Supreme Court elevates intellectual sophistication above common sense.
6.30.14
SCOTUS Hands SEIU Yet Another Defeat
Ricochet.com
In the less touted of the two decisions issued on the final day of the Supreme Court’s 2013-2014 term, Harris v. Quinn, the Court handed the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) another stinging defeat on the much mooted question of whether the union could force “personal assistants” to pay union dues when they don’t want to […]
6.26.14
The Peregrine Podcast: “Finding an Immigration Equilibrium” with Richard Epstein
Peregrine (Hoover Institution)
Richard Epstein argues that immigration reformers should focus on criteria for admitting new citizens, not trying to establish quotas.
6.26.14
Peregrine: Equilibrium for Immigrants
Peregrine (Hoover Institution)
The question posed in this inaugural issue of Peregrine is deceptively simple and profoundly misleading. What it asks us to do as legal and economic analysts is to make some empirical judgment as to the number and composition the immigration population. On reflection, this asks us the wrong question.
6.26.14
Civil Rights Enforcement Gone Haywire
Education Next
The federal government’s new school-discipline policy.
6.24.14
Saving Federalism
National Affairs
For decades, conservative defenders of the prerogatives of state governments have warned that modern theories of “cooperative federalism” are just veils for a vast expansion of federal power at the expense of the states. Today, progressive legal scholars increasingly voice the same view, if with approval rather than concern. This newfound honesty about the condition […]
6.24.14
Time to Retire the ‘Redskins’?
Defining Ideas
The Washington Redskins football team is in the news again, but not in ways that should give comfort to its players or shareholders.
6.20.14
Interview on Thomas Piketty’s “Capitalism”
Institute of Economic Affairs
In this interview with the UK’s Institute of Economic Affairs, Richard Epstein assesses the impact of Thomas Piketty’s recent bestseller, Capitalism in the Twenty-First Century, on the US debate on inequality.