Louis Brandeis

A Judicial Solution for Presidential Overreach and Congressional Abdication
The Supreme Court should take a page from its own history.
Reason
5 min read
Journal of Free Speech Law: "The Enigma of Gitlow: Positivism, Liberty, Democracy, and Freedom of Speech," by Robert Post
The keynote address from the "Gitlow v. New York at 100" symposium, held this year at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law; other papers from that symposium will be published here in the coming weeks.
Reason
8 min read
Why we need a right not to be manipulated
From airlines to broadband, companies exploit cognitive biases to get us to part with money. Here’s how to fight back
The Guardian - UK
6 min read
The sun is setting on government transparency in Florida – and secrecy creep is affecting the rest of the US, too
Florida, the “Sunshine State,” once known as a beacon of government transparency, is growing ever darker, and the clouds are spreading throughout the United States.
The Conversation
10 min read
Google Is Big. Does That Make It a Monopoly?
To understand the federal government's case against Google Search, you need to understand the different visions over monopoly and government power.
Reason
14 min read
MAGA’s jailhouse-to-White House pipeline
What Trump’s government of criminals and ne-er do wells means for America’s future
Salon
8 min read
'I'd never seen such an audacious attack on anonymity before': Clearview AI and the creepy tech that can identify you with a single picture
"Concerns about facial recognition had been building for decades. And now the nebulous bogeyman had finally found its form: a small company with mysterious founders and an unfathomably large database."
LiveScience
9 min read
Campus Free Speech, 2024
For free speech on campus, Brandeis and Holmes should guide colleges and universities.
Reason
7 min read
Elon Musk is spending millions to elect Trump. Let’s boycott his companies
Musk is determined to help Trump win. Perhaps it’s no surprise that both men believe democracy can be bought off
The Guardian - US
5 min read
‘More secretive than the Morrison government’: Labor accused of transparency failure
Independent MPs are frustrated by the Albanese government’s slow progress, saying its actions have not matched its words
The Guardian - AU
9 min read