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14 Mar 2011, 1:02 pm
(Ilya Somin) I agree with much of the advice that co-blogger David Bernstein offers on law school rankings and admissions. [read post]
21 May 2010, 10:47 am
(Ilya Somin) In this recent op ed, Harvard constitutional law professor Charles Fried argues that the Supreme Court’s recent decision in United States v. [read post]
23 Nov 2010, 12:14 am
(Ilya Somin) In his excellent recent book Stalin’s Genocides, Stanford historian Norman Naimark argues that Joseph Stalin committed genocide and not “merely” mass murder. [read post]
19 Dec 2011, 9:09 pm
(Ilya Somin) For readers who may be interested, many of Vaclav Havel’s writings and speeches are available for free in English translation at his official website. [read post]
25 Jan 2012, 6:10 pm
(Ilya Somin) In his new book, Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010, Charles Murray argues that a new elite class has emerged that is much more ignorant about the lives of ordinary Americans than were the elites of earlier generations: As the new upper class increasingly consists of people who were born into upper-middle-class families and have never lived outside the upper-middle-class bubble, the danger increases that the people who have so much in? [read post]
12 Jun 2009, 10:39 am
Ilya Somin takes a different view, one which I share. [read post]
4 Jun 2010, 8:07 pm
(Ilya Somin) In a recent post on Kaur v. [read post]
19 Apr 2010, 6:56 pm
(Ilya Somin) Some of the commenters on my last two posts criticizing libertarian paternalism accuse me of ignoring the possibility that such paternalism is justified by the supposedly superior expertise of government regulators. [read post]
8 May 2012, 8:24 pm
(Ilya Somin) The New York Times has an interesting article on the political attitudes of New York City’s Russian immigrant community. [read post]
29 Feb 2012, 12:16 pm
(Ilya Somin) In general, I am not a fan of the “diversity” rationale for affirmative action, and I have considerable sympathy for plaintiffs’ position in Fisher v. [read post]
12 Feb 2012, 2:57 am
(Ilya Somin) In a thoughtful recent post, co-blogger Dale Carpenter takes issue with my argument that bans on same-sex marriage are best attacked on the grounds that they are unconstitutional sex discrimination, and parts of my post suggesting that a minimalist strategy in the gay marriage litigation is not likely to work. [read post]
5 Sep 2010, 10:32 pm
(Ilya Somin) At Econlog, GMU economist Bryan Caplan and Princeton economist Bill Dickens have been debating the signaling model of education. [read post]
18 Jul 2012, 12:59 pm
(Ilya Somin) During my recent visit to Russia, I visited the Gulag Museum in Moscow, one of the few recent Russian efforts to accurately portray the horrible atrocities of communism. [read post]
20 Jul 2010, 6:07 pm
(Ilya Somin) The NAACP and others have accused Tea Party supporters of racism. [read post]
22 Dec 2011, 4:39 pm
(Ilya Somin) James Kirchick of the New Republic has an article taking libertarians to task because they allegedly don’t “care about Ron Paul’s bigoted newsletters,” which have reentered the limelight since Paul’s recent rise in the GOP primary polls: Ultimately, Paul’s following is closely linked with the peculiar attractions of the libertarian creed that he promotes. [read post]
31 May 2012, 7:20 am
(Ilya Somin) The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that several Asian-American groups have filed an amicus brief opposing the University of Texas’ affirmative action program, which is being challenged in Fisher v. [read post]
13 May 2018, 4:44 am
Both Radley Balko and Ilya Somin have written great posts about why the Protect and Serve Act, which is now pending in Congress, is unnecessary, unconstitutional and just plain bad law. [read post]
19 Sep 2011, 5:34 pm
(Ilya Somin) In the Hartford Courant, journalist Jeff Benedict, author of a major account of the Kelo case, reports on an interesting encounter last year, where Connecticut Supreme Court Justice Richard Palmer apologized to Susette Kelo for voting to uphold the the taking of her home for “economic development” [HT: Cory Andrews]:If a state Supreme Court judge approaches a journalist at a private dinner and says something newsworthy about an important decision, is the… [read post]
18 Aug 2010, 10:02 pm
(Ilya Somin) In my last post, I explained why conservatives and liberals may be changing their traditional positions on standing. [read post]
17 Feb 2011, 10:33 pm
(Ilya Somin) In the New Yorker, well-known writer Malcolm Gladwell has an article presenting his own law school ranking system. [read post]
