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11 Oct 2010, 1:26 am
(Ilya Somin) MIT psychologist Steven Pinker recently delivered an interesting speech to the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education where he argued that we should be extremely skeptical about taboos on the expression of various views [HT: Michael Rappaport]: Today, I think it is the scientific study of the mind that people tend to blend with deep moral issues. [read post]
17 Mar 2012, 4:14 pm
(Ilya Somin) The Hunger Games, a hugely popular series of science fiction novels by Suzanne Collins, is coming out as a major movie next week. [read post]
17 Jan 2011, 1:43 pm
(Ilya Somin) Although federal spending was a major political issue in the 2010 campaign and for many months before it, this recently released CBS poll [HT: Dan Mitchell] reveals widespread public ignorance about the distribution of spending between various programs. [read post]
19 May 2011, 8:29 pm
(Ilya Somin) The city of Allentown, Pennsylvania plans to use eminent domain, or at least the threat of it, to forcibly acquire downtown property for the construction of a minor league hockey arena [HT: my father-in-law Bruce Schmauch, a longtime Allentown resident]:It was drop-the-gloves time in Allentown City Council chambers Wednesday night.A parade of downtown merchants, their attorneys and supporters laid into city officials, saying their heavy-handed efforts to pressure them… [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 3:40 pm
(Ilya Somin) In a recent post, co-blogger Eugene Volokh reasserts the view that the text of the of the Thirteenth Amendment’s ban on “involuntary servitude” does not cover traditional state-imposed “duties of citizenship” such as mandatory military service and possibly even mandatory road work.I think matters are not so simple as that. [read post]
30 Jun 2010, 1:49 pm
(Ilya Somin) In a National Review post discussing the civil rights laws of the 1960s, Roger Clegg writes that “Conservatism is superior to libertarianism because it is less ideological and more readily acknowledges that circumstances matter. [read post]
6 Feb 2012, 10:05 pm
(Ilya Somin) Economist Robin Hanson has a blog post discussing a recent study showing that most people tend to limit conversations about politics to those who agree with their views. [read post]
12 Jun 2011, 8:38 pm
(Ilya Somin) Conservative and libertarian critics of immigration like to cite Milton Friedman’s observation that “[y]ou cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state,” which co-blogger Ken Anderson recently endorsed. [read post]
23 Aug 2012, 1:55 pm
(Ilya Somin) Co-blogger Orin Kerr describes a planned effort by one local government to raise revenue by increasing asset forfeitures through the use of drug-sniffing dogs. [read post]
3 Dec 2018, 2:59 am
Sessions] Court strikes down federal law banning female genital mutilation as overstepping constitutional authority [Eugene Volokh, Ilya Somin] Launched decades ago, advocates still hoping to reanimate: “The problem with zombie constitutional amendments” [Keith Whittington, Harvard Law Review on the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) and others; ABA Journal; related,Gerard Magliocca on ratification deadlines] Unenumerated rights of constitutional stature should include… [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 3:05 pm
(Ilya Somin) My wife Alison and University of San Diego law professor Gail Heriot have just published an article in Engage on the apparently growing practice of sex discrimination on behalf of men in college admissions. [read post]
15 Feb 2011, 11:43 am
(Ilya Somin) Sasha Volokh’s post arguing that his version of libertarianism might not allow government spending to provide for asteroid defense has drawn predictable howls of outrage, including Brad DeLong’s claim that it proves that “libertarians are completely insane. [read post]
25 May 2011, 10:44 pm
(Ilya Somin) Will Wilkinson of the Economist has written a thoughtful response to my argument that Gary Johnson is both more libertarian and more politically viable than Ron Paul. [read post]
15 Jun 2022, 2:03 pm
This was part of a debate with the "other" Ilya, Ilya Shapiro, over the closely related DAPA program. [read post]
16 Feb 2024, 9:13 am
Opposition leaders such as Vladimir Kara-Murza and Ilya Yashin remain in prison right now. [read post]
19 Mar 2018, 3:37 am
At Volokh Conspiracy, Ilya Somin concludes with a statement that should be so obvious as to not need to be said, but it does. [read post]
14 Jan 2024, 3:09 am
[Adam] Serwer and [Ilya] Somin argue that relevant examples abound in American and world history.... [read post]
18 Jan 2022, 4:55 am
"Writes Glenn Reynolds, commenting on Ilya Somin's "Martin Luther King on the Ethics of Resistance to State Authority/Georgetown philosopher Jason Brennan offers a valuable summary of King's thought on these issues. [read post]
15 Mar 2010, 6:14 pm
Somin, Ilya. [read post]
16 Apr 2011, 12:29 am
(Ilya Somin) On Friday night, I went to see the new Atlas Shrugged movie, which recounts Part I of Ayn Rand’s classic novel. [read post]
