Joseph Morris
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Senator Scott has succumbed to a disinformation campaign against Mr. Farr that attempts to paint him as a racist. The charges are entirely false and fabricated.
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ConstitutionLegal Affairs
Amy Coney Barrett on Constitutional Interpretation, Statutory Interpretation, and the Work of Judges
by Joseph Morris July 9, 2018A wonderful window into the mind of Amy Coney Barrett, on President Trump’s short list for the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Milt was a good friend of The Heartland Institute, even providing a studio for him when he first began podcasting.
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Milton Friedman was born 105 years ago today. Let’s celebrate with some thoughts from Professor Friedman himself
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Liberty
Teachout Reviews a Play in Which Communism Is Nailed as the Ignoble Flaw
by Joseph Morris June 18, 2017In my opinion, Terry Teachout of The Wall Street Journal is the best theater critic in the business today.
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Legal Affairs
Immigration, the Equal Rights Amendment, and the Powers of the Court
by Joseph Morris June 17, 2017The United States Supreme Court this week decided a case that resulted in a unanimous agreement on an outcome but that exposed a vast gulf in philosophies.
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The Supreme Court of Illinois yesterday affirmed lower court holdings that eviction of the Chicago “occupy” movement from public parks did not violate Federal or State constitutional protections of peaceful assembly.
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Justice Gorsuch’s opinion is concise and eminently readable. Non-lawyer consumers, lawyers, and even Federal judges will understand it.
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EducationLegal Affairs
Illinois Supreme Court: Illinois High School Association Not Subject to FOIA
by Joseph Morris May 19, 2017The wise and prudent thing to do would be to err on the side of the protection of the non-governmental and the maintenance of what a sage in our sister Commonwealth of Virginia once described as a “wall of separation” — in this instance between the “public” and the “private”.
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LibertyMedia
On Restoring the Voice of America and America’s Tools of Public Diplomacy
by Joseph Morris February 23, 2017The need for America to have powerful tools of public diplomacy – of which the Voice of America ought to be a centerpiece – has never been greater.
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Erasmus was a careful student of text, and would have found modern American legal originalists as companions in arms. He was a lover of learning in all its fields, and mastered many modern and ancient languages, working hard over his lifetime to make vital texts available to modern minds.
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EducationLiberty
University of Chicago Ranked No. 1 in Freedom and Heterodox Thought
by Joseph Morris October 25, 2016Heterodox Academy is an association of university professors who are committed to the freedoms of speech and of expression in society and in the academy, and are resisting the censorship, “safe-space”, and “trigger-warning” madness that currently afflicts so many campuses.