Nathan Goodman

Lawyers furiously writing amicus briefs. May I suggest you read the 3 articles i published in advance of my forthcoming book Migration & the Origins of American Citizenship due out on Oxford U. Press on March 10? 3 articles are out from it including this un-gated one on the Recon Amendments

ICE just released new detention statistics.

As of November 30, 2025, ICE was detaining 65,735 people across the United States.

www.ice.gov/detain/deten...

This week's post continues the comparison between Knight and Hayek, and traces the origins of the 'de gustibus non est disputandum' phrase within the Chicago school.

And it tells you something about how to become a better version of yourself: seeinglikechicago.substack.com/p/lets-argue...

Really excited to serve as discussant for this event on William Galston’s most recent book on emotions in politics and the challenges faced by liberal democracy today! Come by if you’re in DC!

I just published a Cambridge Elements that offers a critical overview of recent work in epistocracy, Confucian meritocracy, and democratic theories of meritocracy. Free to download for the next two weeks. URL: t.co/Z5BOYrCRGF.

PREA audits are difficult enough to secure in any impactful or transparent way. Telling auditors just to ignore the risks queer people face is as explicit an endorsement of their abuse as you can get

Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order

I lobbied heavily on PREA c. 2009-16. It’s both true that PREA is largely a failure, and that rollback will likely escalate already-systemic torture of TGI folks. (State laws, unaffected, are also weak.)
This is truly vicious.
And. My PREA work taught me:
The cause of prison rape is prisons.

Trans people suffer the most violence in prison. PREA was never enough but it’s just disgusting to roll it back.

The Lasting Impact of Trump’s Rhetoric To listen to this episode of Trumpcast, use the player below:

For, oh, who knows what reason, thinking about the time @jamellebouie.net invited me to a conversation about what it does to society when the president just openly says nakedly racist things.

slate.com/podcasts/tru...

U.S. to Press Europe and Other Allies on ‘Mass Migration,’ Document Says

It's not just that the United States has stopped trying to promote liberal democratic ideas internationally. It's that the United States is actively trying to promote the contrary. It's trying to turn more countries into Hungary.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Economics and gardening metaphors On the different conceptions of scientism in Knight and Hayek

Hayek famously proposed that the economist should act more like a gardener than the artisan or craftsman. In this week's post I discuss Frank Knight's critique of the gardener metaphor (formulated quite a few decades before Hayek made his arguments).

The US Administration has terminated our refugee program.

Whatever is left—a special visa for white people from one country—has nothing to do with a refugee program.

Border Patrol Raided Arizona Medical Aid Site With No Warrant, Showing Growing “Impunity” The raid on humanitarian aid providers on the U.S.-Mexico divide was the first where Border Patrol entered structures without a warrant.

"Meanwhile, solidarity with migrants is being increasingly criminalized. ... Border Patrol has increasingly been raiding a first aid camp set up by volunteer group No More Deaths."
- @petergelderloos.bsky.social, "The Solutions are Already Here" pg. 79

Recently, these raids escalated.

NSP 72 - No More Deaths

Early access to our interview with 2 volunteers from @nomoredeaths.bsky.social is up on Patreon

🔗 www.patreon.com/posts/nsp-72...

Listen to our podcast interview with our friends in the UK likewise defending #jurynullification

fija.org/what-we-do/p...

Libertarianism Through Thick and Thin What Kind of Commitment Is Libertarianism?

"Consider the conceptual reasons that libertarians have to oppose authoritarianism, not only as enforced by governments but also as expressed in culture, business, the family, and civil society." - Charles Johnson

c4ss.org/content/12460

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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com is intellectually serious, philosophically pluralistic, and politically responsible. Above all it is a voice for liberal principles, at a time when that is urgently needed but frustratingly difficult to find.

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Behind Closed Doors Podcast Go behind closed doors of the American criminal legal system to explore its inner workings with the Fully Informed Jury Association in this unique podcast focuses on the American jury system.

The Labour Government in the UK is now threatening to abolish jury trials in almost all cases.

Just before this news was announced, we talked on our podcast with Dr. Clive Dolphin of @defendourjuries.bsky.social , about the erosion of jury rights in the UK.
fija.org/what-we-do/p...

Trial by jury is a vital safeguard of liberty.

To learn more about these crucial issues, consider following @fijanational.bsky.social & @defendourjuries.bsky.social

Abolishing Jury Trials Is a Direct Assault on English Liberty Against the Quiet Undoing of a Thousand Years

"The jury box may be humble, but it stands taller than any minister, for it carries the weight of a thousand years. And if the government wishes to preserve not merely order but liberty, it must leave that box, and the people within it untouched."
www.theunseenandtheunsaid.com/p/abolishing...

YouTube video by Nicolas Stefano Drpic Ilya Somin explains rational ignorance in politics

youtu.be/wDUDAjCTv6w?...

Federalists created a system of countervailing competing interests via separate institutions. They failed to account for partisan alignment rendering the model unworkable. The Anti-Federalist faction at the constitutional convention had a much better read on human nature in connection with power.

The US government is engaged in a policy program of mass exclusion.

It is not a ‘crackdown’—which means strict enforcement against lawbreakers.

It seeks to exclude refugees, students, and family members immigrating lawfully, and to exclude US citizens smeared as undesirable.

Not a ‘crackdown’.

Jury Nullification and Science Wars with William Gillis

“If you were able to get onto a jury, without getting pulled out, knowing what jury nullification is and the fullness of your rights. . .you can maybe save someone’s life.”
- @rechelon.bsky.social

🔗 youtu.be/6ER8q_ciSEI

@fijanational.bsky.social #law #legal

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Adding another “papers, please” moment to the American experience.

Times Analysis Finds Errors in Trump’s Supreme Court Filing That Calls for National Guard in Chicago

This is why the entire court manufactured doctrine of a "presumption of regularity" in statements made by Exec branch officials never passes the laugh test.

Video of her being dragged by authorities in Ghana:

www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

FBI agent working as a Population Control Police is caught smashing a small business owner's surveillance camera. Why? Because the PCP does not want their crimes on camera.

Thank you!