Justice Alito’s Practical Guide to OriginalismAlmost 40 years ago, when he was still a new member of the Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia gave a speech, later published as an essay, on how judges should interpret the Constitution. In "Originalism: The Lesser Evil," Scalia argued that judges should interpret the Constitution's words in accordance with how those words were interpreted by the…Washington Free Beacon2d agoWhole story →Justice
Charting a Course CorrectionBefore the Trump administration's sweeping demands for reform in the Ivy League, before "it depends on the context," before the tentifada, before the occupation of Hamilton Hall, before Yale administrators tried to railroad a law student over a "trap house" party, before students screamed at Erika Christakis for imaginary racial insensitivity, before the…Washington Free Beacon2d agoWhole story →BuildEducation
REVIEW: ‘Manhunter’When Manhunter was released in 1986, it was panned as a "hokey," "chic, well-cast wasteland," whose plot fell apart "like the shattered mirrors that figure in the crime" by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle, respectively. The mainstream media, as usual, were wrong. While the film was a box-office flop, making just…Washington Free Beacon2d agoWhole story →JusticeCulture
