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28 May 2012, 2:13 pm
(Ilya Somin) CNN has a good story on North Korea’s system of prison camps, modeled on the Gulags of the Soviet Union, but possibly even worse: Watching the public execution of his mother and older brother, Shin Dong-Hyuk thought the punishment was just. [read post]
28 Feb 2008, 12:12 am
I was going to write a long post on Bill Buckley, but Ilya Somin has said most of what I would have said. [read post]
12 Dec 2007, 11:31 pm
Professor Ilya Somin posts "If You Ever Build It, Maybe Some Economic Development Will Come - The New London Development Project Since Kelo. [read post]
1 Jun 2011, 10:04 am
(Ilya Somin) The LA Times has an article describing how ROTC programs have returned to many elite universities in the wake of the abolition of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy:Helped by the recession, more active recruiting and a sea change in student perceptions of the military, enrollment in ROTC programs on college campuses is booming.Even with ongoing U.S. involvement in conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Libya, participation in the program has surged 27% over… [read post]
15 Feb 2016, 9:05 pm
A missed opportunity, thinks Ilya Somin; What? [read post]
11 Aug 2012, 1:58 am
(Ilya Somin) Mitt Romney is about to name Wisconsin Rep. [read post]
11 Sep 2018, 2:59 am
The hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh have wrapped up: Ilya Somin on the nominee’s view of executive power; “The attacks on originalism during the Gorsuch hearings were seen as failures—in the sense that they failed to persuasively portray originalism as outside the mainstream. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 11:26 am
(Ilya Somin) When the Israeli government exchanged over 1000 captured terrorists for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit last fall, I pointed out that the deal was likely to cost a lot more innocent lives than it saved, because many of the freed terrorists are likely to go back to their old ways. [read post]
20 Sep 2007, 9:26 am
About a month ago, Ilya Somin at the Volokh Conspiracy asked whether he should continue to teach the Rule Against Perpetuities in his Property class. [read post]
30 Jun 2011, 8:04 pm
(Ilya Somin) Back in October 2009, the Obama Justice Department issued a memo that some interpreted as discouraging federal raids on medical marijuana dispensaries operating in states where medical marijuana is permitted under state law. [read post]
2 Mar 2012, 11:19 pm
(Ilya Somin) For what it is worth, I completely agree with co-blogger Jonathan Adler’s comments on the Koch brothers’ lawsuit against the Cato Institute. [read post]
29 Oct 2012, 8:15 am
(Ilya Somin) Six states have marijuana legalization referendum questions on the ballot in this year’s election. [read post]
1 Apr 2010, 8:59 pm
(Ilya Somin) Back in December, I wrote a post debunking “The Myth of an Expert Consensus on the Constitutionality of an Individual Health Insurance Mandate. [read post]
4 Apr 2011, 10:48 pm
(Ilya Somin) Religious freedom scholar Nina Shea reports that the United Nations Human Rights Council recently ended consideration of a resolution requiring states to ban “defamation of religion. [read post]
14 Jun 2012, 7:17 pm
(Ilya Somin) Yesterday’s New York Times has an interesting article about how the broccoli mandate analogy came to play a major role in the cases challenging the constitutionality of the Obamacare individual health insurance mandate. [read post]
28 Aug 2011, 3:05 pm
(Ilya Somin) During storms like this weekend’s Hurricane Irene, trees and branches often fall from people’s yards into their neighbors. [read post]
11 Mar 2012, 5:39 pm
(Ilya Somin) As part of the ongoing discussion of libertarian views on the Civil War and secession, Jason Kuznicki of Cato and David Drumm of the Jonathan Turley blog have argued, in Kuznicki’s words, that “[s]ecession is the decision to step out of an existing political order, so it’s a category error to try to justify it legally. [read post]
4 Nov 2010, 10:32 am
(Ilya Somin) I am at least somewhat happy to see that John Kasich was elected governor of Ohio on Tuesday. [read post]
17 Jan 2011, 11:14 pm
(Ilya Somin) Above the Law has a post about various law professors who recently got into trouble by reusing questions from past exams. [read post]
11 Jun 2012, 8:15 am
(Ilya Somin) Many leading science fiction and fantasy writers have been libertarians, or at least significantly influenced by libertarian ideas. [read post]
