Pico and Llano County

On the removal of books from school libraries, in the Reagan era and today

Florida's Stop WOKE Act is dead

On federal courts as democratic guardrails in the Trump era

My conversation with Maurice (Mo) Brown

SCOTUS and democratic backsliding

Assessing the Court's recent term through a democratic backsliding lens

Militant democracy in U.S. law

Is Joseph Goebbels's mocking of liberal democracy relevant to First Amendment disputes?

Institutional neutrality & academic freedom

Institutional neutrality mandates are inconsistent with academic freedom, full stop

What I learned at LSA

Lessons from one of my favorite annual conferences

Free speech and democratic backsliding in Brazil

What Brazil's Supreme Court gets right

Is there a global free speech recession?

On Mchangama and Kosseff's The Future of Free Speech

What I learned at the Global Summit on Constitutionalism

Another re-post from 2025

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