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Would Anarcho-Capitalism Be a Disaster? A Soho Forum Debate

Yaron Brook and Bryan Caplan debate the merits of anarcho-capitalism.

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Ilya Somin's speaking engagements for the Fall 2023 semester. Most are free and open to the public.

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Estuaries? Pickleball? Rum? There’s a congressional caucus for practically everything

WASHINGTON — No matter the topic, Congress has a caucus — or two, or three, or more — for you.

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Estuaries? Pickleball? Rum? There's a congressional caucus for practically everything - Roll Call

The number of congressional caucuses has grown to more than 800, as lawmakers seek connections to issues important to voters.

Roll Call

Jaan Tallinn and Robin Hanson: Should We Pause A.I.?

The co-creator of Skype says yes. The George Mason University economist says no.

Reason

An engineering professor warned that people trust self-driving technology so much it’s ‘injuring them or killing them’ a day before Tesla’s massive recall

Professor Missy Cummings said “overtrusting" self-driving tech could lead to accidents.

Fortune

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Ilya Somin's speaking engagements for the Spring 2023 semester. Most are free and open to the public.

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A strange pandemic for John Hollis, naturally immune to COVID

ATLANTA — It was summer 2020 and John Hollis, a publicist at George Mason University, was asking a scientist about his research on COVID-19 antibodies, when the scientist turned the tables. The scientist, Lance Liotta, asked his own question: Would Hollis like to join the study as a subject?

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An unlikely hub for big-tech challengers emerges in Utah

For decades, conservative economic thought on the virtues of the free market has reigned supreme in American jurisprudence, nourished by scholars at places such as the University of Chicago and George Mason University.

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The Arbitrariness of Racial Classifications Gets Attention as SCOTUS Considers Affirmative Action

I did not time my book on racial classifications to coincide with litigation over affirmative action. Indeed, the book is not about affirmative action, and much of the book has nothing directly to do with it. Of course, though, it turns out that you can't talk about the post-World War…

Reason

Video of Cato Institute Constitution Day Panel on Recent Supreme Court Cases on "Constitutional Structure"

Participants included VC contributor Jonathan Adler, George Mason University law Prof. Jennifer Mascott, and myself.

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Upcoming Speaking Engagements

Ilya Somin's speaking engagements for the Fall 2022 semester. Most are free and open to the public.

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Paper Submission Opportunity on "Due Process Deficits in Regulatory Enforcement and Adjudication"

The symposium is sponsored by Pacific Legal Foundation’s Center for the Separation of Powers, The Center for Growth and Opportunity, and the George Mason University Law and Economics Center.

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The Crisis In Housing, Part 1: A Lopsided Market

The Japanese novelist Kobo Abe once wrote, “There is always order in the distant view. No matter how strange the happening, it can never project from the frame, from the order which this distant view possesses.”

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Upcoming George Mason University Event on "Justice, International Law, and the War in Ukraine"

It will take place on Thursday, March 10, at 5 PM and is open to the public. I will speak, along with my colleague Prof. Jeremy Rabkin.

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Affordable housing – in pandemic times, what works and what doesn't?

Two years of pandemic disruptions have put a spotlight on shortcomings in the U.S. housing market. Some of these shortcomings have their origins in federal and local policy decisions made decades ago. But there are also positive examples of cities making zoning decisions that work to create affordable housing. On…

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Faculty Letter Against Firing Ilya Shapiro

I don't normally do this sort of thing, but in light of the continued calls to terminate Ilya Shapiro from Georgetown University Law Center because of his tweets last week, I was part of a group of professors who sent the following letter to Georgetown Dean William Treanor. (Signatories include…

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