The Supreme Court has misrepresented the Establishment Clause history on which it purports to rely, arbitrarily narrowing its description of the paradigmatic wrong the clause aims to end.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Is it a political mistake to kill your voters and their children? That hypothesis will soon be tested.
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Opinion | Sarah McBride on Why the Left Lost on Trans Rights

I generally don't look for wisdom from politicians. So I'm mightily impressed by the remarkable insightful Rep. Sarah McBride, and agree with every single thing she says in this long interview. Required reading.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...

The Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues has published a symposium on my book, BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE: HOW LIBERTARIAN PHILOSOPHY WAS CORRUPTED BY DELUSION AND GREED.
digital.sandiego.edu/jcli/vol26/i...

The $200 Billion Gamble: Bill Gates’s Plan to Wind Down His Foundation

It’s refreshing to hear Bill Gates say it about Elon Musk: “the world’s richest man has been involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...

Religious Exemptions?: What the Free Exercise Clause Means | A conversation among three religious liberty scholars on the Free Exercise Clause’s original meaning.

For those who are interested, a somewhat specialized conversation between myself, Michael McConnell, and Vincent Phillip Muñoz on originalism and religious exemptions:

www.civitasinstitute.org/research/rel...

Who knew that Justice Samuel Alito was such a trusting person?

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140. The Disturbing Myopia of Trump v. J.G.G. In normal times, it might be possible to defend the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling on Monday vacating a pair of temporary restraining orders in the Alien Enemy Act case. But these aren't normal times.

Steve Vladeck is characteristically clear and accurate in explaining what the Supreme Court just did in the deportation cases.

www.stevevladeck.com/p/140-the-di...

The Mystery of Neil Gorsuch | Los Angeles Review of Books Andrew Koppelman delves into Neil Gorsuch and Janie Nitze’s “Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law.”

The principal virtue of Neil Gorsuch's new book is the light it unintentionally sheds on some of the Supreme Court’s least defensible decisions.

lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...

Misguided anti-racism campaign cancels college Sondheim production Theater is a potent medium for showing us the truth of what people do to one another.

John Wilkes Booth was a racist murderer, but that apparently wasn’t the worst thing about him. The worst thing was that he used “the N-word.”

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On the ugly rhetoric of Dobbs v. Women's Health:

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In Search of Common Ground: Religion and Secularism in a Liberal Democratic Society - Chicago-Kent Law Review 2025 Chicago-Kent Law Review Online Live Symposium Symposium Editors Steven J. Heyman, Chicago-Kent College of Law Kathleen A. Brady, Emory University Chicago-Kent College of Law February 21, 2025 Con...

I'm looking forward to participating in this online symposium on religion and secularism, run by Chicago-Kent Law, this Friday, Feb. 21.

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Critiquing Hadley Arkes’s not-so-mere Natural Law Theory – Andrew Koppelman Critiquing Hadley Arkes’s not-so-mere Natural Law Theory Andrew Koppelman* Law can’t be separated from morality, because law is a kind of human conduct.  So is compliance with the law.  Morality co…

Hadley Arkes's natural law arguments against gay rights and abortion neglect important aspects of the natural law tradition.

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Trump Administration Revokes Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S. The decision to revoke Temporary Protected Status signals that President Trump will continue to dismantle a program that aims to protect migrants from potentially dangerous countries.

Trump would have sent Jewish refugees back to Nazi Germany.

Trump Administration Revokes Protections for Venezuelans in the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

How Libertarians Have Invaded Evangelicalism Ayn Rand's libertarian ideas have infiltrated evangelicalism. In some circles Christians are taught to be selfish and ignore the poor. Are these the teachings of Jesus? In this episode we learn what l...

I appeared on Chris Staron's Truce podcast, which examines the world from a Christian perspective. We explored the tensions that arise as Christians are increasingly drawn toward libertarianism. The conversation is here:

trucepodcast.com/s6e18-how-li...

Divine Madness A review of Jerome Copulsky, “American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order” (Yale University Press, 2024). 

Jerome Copulsky’s “American Heretics: Religious Adversaries of Liberal Order” is an engaging historical survey of Christian theocratic opponents of American liberalism, from the American Revolution to the present. I review it at Lawfare: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/divi...

But these are in some ways equivalent: I can make you ashamed only if you and I hold ourselves accountable to at least some of the same standards.

When I'm in a friendly mood, I say that I speak at the Federalist Society to look for common ground. When I feel less friendly, I say that I go there hoping to make at least some people in the audience feel ashamed of themselves.

YouTube video by The Federalist Society Welcome & Opening Remarks and Showcase Panel I [NLC2024]

At a panel at the Federalist Society, I was hissed by the audience when I called for "flat out redistribution of wealth." Then I got them to abruptly stop hissing. See www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJWd... at 1:39.