Author: Thomas L. Knapp

Source: The Volokh Conspiracy
by Ilya Somin

“Today’s Supreme Court ruling barring nationwide injunctions could empower the federal government to engage in large-scale violations of the Constitution. Exactly how bad the consequences will be depends on the extent to which other remedies can be used to forestall them.” (06/27/25)

https://reason.com/volokh/2025/06/27/a-bad-decision-on-nationwide-injunctions/

Source: Free Association
by Sheldon Richman

“To say the least, Trump has a thing about Iran. That is likely explained in part by the 1979 Islamic revolution, which overthrew the American- and Israeli-backed dictator-monarch, and the taking of hostages in the American embassy. However, history did not begin in 1979. The U.S. government had helped abuse the Iranians long before that. A more suitable date on which to begin the story is August 15, 1953. That is when the CIA and British operatives ousted the democratically elected prime minister, Mohammad Mosaddegh, and restored the autocratic Shah of Iran to power. Mosaddegh, among other things, had nationalized the oil industry to the detriment of British oil interests.” (06/27/25)

https://sheldonfreeassociation.blogspot.com/2025/06/tgif-us-empires-72-year-war-on-iran.html

Source: The American Conservative
by Jude Russo

“A New York mayor has to do only four things well to be considered a winner: don’t mess with the public schools; keep the subway basically safe and in basically good repair; support the police as they crack down on sickos and crooks, even when that entails a little light brutality; and keep the city solvent. … [Zohran] Mamdani seems in large part to define himself by opposing the Four-Point Way for mayors laid out above.” (06/27/25)

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-great-mamdani-freakout/

Source: Electronic Frontier Foundation
by Aaron Mackey, Lisa Femia, & Jason Kelley

“Today’s decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton is a direct blow to the free speech rights of adults. The Court ruled that ‘no person — adult or child — has a First Amendment right to access speech that is obscene to minors without first submitting proof of age.’ This ruling allows states to enact onerous age-verification rules that will block adults from accessing lawful speech, curtail their ability to be anonymous, and jeopardize their data security and privacy. These are real and immense burdens on adults, and the Court was wrong to ignore them in upholding Texas’[s] law.” (06/27/25)

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/todays-supreme-court-decision-age-verification-tramples-free-speech-and-undermines

Source: EconLog
by Sarah Skwire

“The newest season of the Netflix documentary America’s Sweethearts, which traces the 2024 audition, training, and performance season of the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, is a lot more than just a pretty face. The philosopher Loren Lomasky has argued persuasively in Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community that one of the things that makes humans human is our devotion to projects. … But as I’m sure many economists have noted, this season of America’s Sweethearts isn’t just about the passionate pursuit of a good high kick and perfect jump splits. It’s about the importance of what Albert O. Hirschman called voice and exit.” (06/27/25)

https://www.econlib.org/voice-exit-and-cheerleaders/