By Jun 24,2008

Boumediene, cont.

Jack Goldsmith has a pretty solid roundup of the valid conservative critiques on Boumediene over at Slate. The bad: On my own first reading of the case, I was drawn...

By Jun 24,2008

Dirty Harry

By the way, I called Libertas “newly reconstituted” because it appears their all-star blogger, Dirty Harry, has struck out on his own. If I had to guess, I’d say there...

By Jun 24,2008

Independent filmmaking

At the reconstituted Libertas, Jason Apuzzo makes the argument that independent, conservative filmmakers should eschew the Hollywood system and distribute films on their own with the aid of the Internet....

By Jun 24,2008

I Don’t (But I Might Soon)

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By Jun 23,2008

The legitimacy of international law

I’m a little surprised at James’s full-throated defense of international law. In response to my suggestion that Americans would disapprove of American nationals being seized while traveling abroad, James writes...

By Jun 23,2008

Oh, Go Nudge Yourself

Sorry, George Will. Nudging irritates me. When I think of nudging, I do not think of unobtrusively maximizing aggregate efficiency in a way consonant with free public choice. I think...