The Debate Link

A newly-ascendent doctrine the Supreme Court has used to strike down disfavored executive regulations is the so-called "Major Questions...

[Graphic: Washington Post] Another huge wave of conference consolidation just hit , as eight schools just departed the PAC-12 . Oregon, USC,...

LLMs depress me. It's not so much the existential threat to my profession and livelihood (though that does lurk in the background, at le...

I have two trips coming up -- one to Colorado to visit my brother and parents, and the second to Seattle to visit friends (and see Liz Miele...

The fallout from Ron DeSantis' new "slavery: it wasn't all bad" educational standards  continues, as most elected Black Re...

The following is one of the posts where I don't actually know anything about the subject matter, but I'm going to exercise my God-gi...

Someone -- I can't find who -- once said, in relation to claims that Jews had "failed to the learn the lessons of Auschwitz", ...

One thing that's come up in a few of the Supreme Court's recent blockbuster decisions is the shakiness of the fact pattern in the un...

[Patrick Semansky / AP] The utterly unsurprising news that the majority of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s major financial backers are dyed-in-t...

The other day, the Wisconsin Supreme Court (two weeks away from Janet Protasiewicz taking her seat on the bench and flipping the court's...

  There's another one of those open letters going around, where mostly right-leaning Jews issue a jeremiad against alleged intolerant le...

Like many professors , I've been looking uneasily at the development of Large Language Models (LLMs) and what they mean for the professi...

One of my great fears is to be around for the extinction of humanity. At some point, our species will kick the bucket, but I don't want ...

In 303 Creative , the Supreme Court held that at least in some circumstances a business's free speech interest in avoiding producing exp...

Within the past few days, I've signed up for both Threads and Bluesky . Both also are letting me slowly wean off my Twitter addiction (...

This is an interesting story about a New Jersey kosher bakery who refused to bake rainbow-frosted cupcakes because the baker decided Pride-t...

Folks are cackling at a line-item veto Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) made which took a one-year increase to the school budget and, though some clev...