Jacob Mchangama on Frederick Douglass's Views on Free Speech During the Civil War
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/24/jacob-mchangama-on-frederick-douglasss-views-on-free-speech-during-the-civil-war/
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/24/jacob-mchangama-on-frederick-douglasss-views-on-free-speech-during-the-civil-war/
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Jacob Mchangama on Frederick Douglass's Views on Free Speech During the Civil War
An extremely interesting post (Mchangama, as many of you know, is a historian of free speech, among other things): [I]t's...
"Signs of AI Authorship in Federal Appellate Opinions"
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/24/signs-of-ai-authorship-in-federal-appellate-opinions/
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/24/signs-of-ai-authorship-in-federal-appellate-opinions/
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"Signs of AI Authorship in Federal Appellate Opinions"
"Dozens of published circuit opinions show signs of AI writing. If courts are using AI, that's promising—and worth getting right."
AI Hallucinations in State Farm Insurance Outside Lawyers' Filings
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/24/ai-hallucinations-in-state-farm-insurance-outside-lawyers-filings/
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/24/ai-hallucinations-in-state-farm-insurance-outside-lawyers-filings/
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AI Hallucinations in State Farm Insurance Outside Lawyers' Filings
From L.A. Times (Rebecca Ellis) Wednesday: As part of an insurance dispute over a fire-damaged Carson home, attorneys for State...
Forget the Population Bomb. The New Fear Is a Population Implosion.
https://reason.com/2026/08/24/forget-the-population-bomb-the-new-fear-is-a-population-implosion/
https://reason.com/2026/08/24/forget-the-population-bomb-the-new-fear-is-a-population-implosion/
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Forget the Population Bomb. The New Fear Is a Population Implosion.
Overpopulation panic is sooooo 20th Century! Welcome to the era of depopulation dread.
Study: Most Mealtime Screen Time Is TV, Not Social Media
https://reason.com/2026/08/24/study-most-mealtime-screen-time-is-tv-not-social-media/
https://reason.com/2026/08/24/study-most-mealtime-screen-time-is-tv-not-social-media/
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Study: Most Mealtime Screen Time Is TV, Not Social Media
What a new study of mealtime screen time does—and does not—say.
Trump Threatens U.S. Relationship With Canada as Trade Talks Collapse
https://reason.com/2026/08/24/trump-threatens-u-s-relationship-with-canada-as-trade-talks-collapse/
https://reason.com/2026/08/24/trump-threatens-u-s-relationship-with-canada-as-trade-talks-collapse/
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Trump Threatens U.S. Relationship With Canada as Trade Talks Collapse
Canada is one of our closest allies and largest trading partners. Why is Trump so willing to blow up that relationship over tariffs?
This YouTuber Got Kicked Out of the Flock Convention. So He Ran His Own Surveillance.
https://reason.com/2026/08/24/this-youtuber-got-kicked-out-of-the-flock-convention-so-he-ran-his-own-surveillance/
https://reason.com/2026/08/24/this-youtuber-got-kicked-out-of-the-flock-convention-so-he-ran-his-own-surveillance/
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This YouTuber Got Kicked Out of the Flock Convention. So He Ran His Own Surveillance.
Flock argues that the public doesn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy on the road. But they sure don't like journalists at their conference.
No Preliminary Injunction Against Applying Birth Sex Policy to Intersex Plaintiff's Global Entry Card …
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/24/no-preliminary-injunction-against-applying-birth-sex-policy-to-intersex-plaintiffs-global-entry-card/
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/24/no-preliminary-injunction-against-applying-birth-sex-policy-to-intersex-plaintiffs-global-entry-card/
How Long Did Justice Jackson's "Kafkaesque Nightmare" Dissent Hold Up Trump v. California?
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/24/how-long-did-justice-jacksons-kafkaesque-nightmare-dissent-hold-up-trump-v-california/
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/24/how-long-did-justice-jacksons-kafkaesque-nightmare-dissent-hold-up-trump-v-california/
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How Long Did Justice Jackson's "Kafkaesque Nightmare" Dissent Hold Up Trump v. California?
In a future writing, I propose a mechanism whereby six Justices can force the release of any pending case.
Marjorie Taylor Greene on MAGA, Congress, and the Two-Party System
https://reason.com/2026/08/25/marjorie-taylor-greene-on-the-two-party-system/
https://reason.com/2026/08/25/marjorie-taylor-greene-on-the-two-party-system/
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Marjorie Taylor Greene on MAGA, Congress, and the Two-Party System
"I spent five years of my life the most pissed off I could ever be because I hated all of it," the former congresswoman tells Reason's Robby Soave.
Today in Supreme Court History: August 25, 1998
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/25/today-in-supreme-court-history-august-25-1998-6/
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/25/today-in-supreme-court-history-august-25-1998-6/
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Today in Supreme Court History: August 25, 1998
8/25/1998: Justice Lewis Powell dies.
Should Deadly Self-Defense Be Tortious if Need for It Could Have Been Avoided "by Relinquishing the Exercise of [a] Right"?
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/25/should-deadly-self-defense-be-tortious-if-need-for-it-could-have-been-avoided-by-relinquishing-the-exercise-of-a-right/
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/25/should-deadly-self-defense-be-tortious-if-need-for-it-could-have-been-avoided-by-relinquishing-the-exercise-of-a-right/
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Should Deadly Self-Defense Be Tortious if Need for It Could Have Been Avoided "by Relinquishing the Exercise of [a] Right"?
The Restatements are influential works by the American Law Institute—an organization of lawyers, judges, and academics—that aimed to provide a...
New in Civitas Outlook: "SCOTUS's Immigration Rulings Chastise Trump on Morality"
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/25/new-in-civitas-outlook-scotuss-immigration-rulings-chastise-trump-on-morality/
https://reason.com/volokh/2026/08/25/new-in-civitas-outlook-scotuss-immigration-rulings-chastise-trump-on-morality/
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New in Civitas Outlook: "SCOTUS’s Immigration Rulings Chastise Trump on Morality"
"Mullin v. Doe should have been resolved on legal grounds without the need to virtue signal about immigration."