The Volokh Conspiracy: New York Times in 1924: ‘Hitler Tamed by Prison’

Diversity Newspeak: Hispanics are a ‘racial minority,’ Asian Americans are not

Orwellian language to promote “diversity”

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Short Circuit: A roundup of recent federal court decisions

A suspiciously relaxed motorist, an aggrieved essayist and a disorderly extension of the rules of orderliness.

By Eugene Volokh • Read more »

New York Times in 1924: ‘Hitler Tamed by Prison’

“It is believed he will retire to private life and return to Austria, the country of his birth.”

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Federal judge advances lawsuit challenging academic group’s Israel boycott

The American Studies Association had adopted a boycott of Israel, and a legal challenge to that move has just been advanced in federal court.

By Eugene Kontorovich • Read more »

Indiana: Ban on broadcasting trials doesn’t bar live-tweeting

“Microblogging, tweeting, or electronically relaying a written message does not constitute broadcasting … unless the transmitted message contains video or audio of court proceedings or a link to videotaped court testimony.”

By Eugene Volokh • Read more »

Five questions for a critic of originalism

A legal historian makes some unsupported claims about the present

By Randy Barnett • Read more »

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