by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Mar 21, 2022 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
What will be the fate of free speech in the United States? The answer is coming soon from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Netchoice v. Paxton. Last year, Texas protected free speech from Big Tech censorship by passing a statute finding that the...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Oct 22, 2021 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
The public school system weighs on parents. It burdens them not simply with poor teaching and discipline, but with political bias, hostility toward religion, and now even sexual and racial indoctrination. Schools often seek openly to shape the very identity of...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Feb 9, 2022 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
What should be done about law-school deans and others in legal institutions who censor, cancel, blacklist, refuse to hire, fire, “investigate” and otherwise threaten others for their opinions? A partial answer lies in reminding them that their misconduct may...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jan 12, 2022 | Covid-19 Articles, Opinion, Philip Hamburger
The Biden administration has imposed COVID-19 vaccinations on all healthcare workers at Medicare and Medicaid participating facilities as a condition of federal funding. When this condition came before the Supreme Court last Friday in Biden v. Missouri, the justices...
by Ruslan Moldovanov | Oct 28, 2021 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
It is flattering that a commentator as astute as Andrew McCarthy would respond to my Wall Street Journal article questioning the current public-school system. But it is dismaying that, in “The Wrong Way to Fight Progressive Indoctrination in Public Schools,”he...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Aug 5, 2021 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
Last weekend, we published an essay in the Wall Street Journal arguing that Big Tech services and platforms that function as conduits for the speech of others can constitutionally be subject to state civil-rights statutes barring viewpoint discrimination. One reason...