Jon Guze

Thirteen years ago, in Kelo v. City of New London, the U.S. Supreme Court shocked the country by upholding the City of New London’s use of eminent domain to seize working class citizens’ homes and give the land to a private corporation for “high-end” commercial development. In response to…

In a recent piece called, “Committed to the Constitution,” Manhattan Institute scholar James Copland provides a detailed, and very favorable, evaluation of President Trump’s latest Supreme Court nominee: Few, if any, conceivable Supreme Court nominees are as well prepared for the role as Judge Brett Kavanaugh…. Kavanaugh…

July 9, 2018, was the 150th anniversary of the ratification of the 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution. Elizabeth Nolan Brown explained the significance in a piece at Reason.com: The Fourteenth Amendment—greenlit by a 23rd state (and thus cleared for adoption) on July…

Hans von Spakovsky explains at the Daily Signal: Peter Strzok’s testimony about the email server scandal involving former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton raised headlines because of his defiant, disrespectful, and unapologetic attitude about the bias revealed in his text messages that permeated his work at the…

That’s the subtitle of a dissertation by UCLA PhD candidate Anne Elizabeth Brown. From the abstract: I find that ridehailing extends reliable car access to travelers and neighborhoods previously marginalized by the taxi industry. Ridehailing served neighborhoods home to 99.8 percent of the Los Angeles County population.

At the NC School of Government’s criminal law blog, Christopher Tyner reports: The American Association of State Troopers is asking people to vote for the best looking cruiser in the country on their Facebook page.  The North Carolina Highway Patrol has a pretty strong entry featuring…

That’s one of the things I took away from a fascinating Cato Institute report called, “Why Does the Federal Government Issue Damaging Dietary Guidelines? Lessons from Thomas Jefferson to Today.” Here’s an excerpt: The American people did as they were advised — not just by the government,…

Matt Ridley explains how it happened at the Rational Optimist: More people use ecigarettes in the UK than in any other European country. It’s more officially encouraged than in the United States and more socially acceptable than in Australia, where it’s still banned. There is a thriving…