Sitemap - 2021 - Dilan’s Newsletter
Don't Even Fantasize About Splitting Up the United States
You Can't Both Be For Universal Health Care And Against Treating Unvaccinated People
En Banc Review Needs To Be Curtailed
There Are Almost No One-Offs in the Legal System
Prosecuting Parents Enables Systemic Racism
Liberals Are Never Going To Stop the Media Obsession With Crime, But They Can Play the Game Better.
We Need New Rules on Police Testimony
The Temptations of the Journalistic Outlier
Activists Step On It On the "Cotton Ceiling"
What If We Took Internet Toxicity Seriously?
The False Idol of Jury Nullifcation
Being Nice To People Is an Underrated Tactic
In Defense of Journalistic Objectivity
The Intersectionality Nobody Likes To Talk About
What Do You Do About Anachronistic Constitutional Provisions?
Jurisdiction Stripping Doesn't Work
Everyone's a Lawyer on Twitter
Parole is a Good Idea. We Need More of It.
Not Everything You Don't Like Is Unconstitutional
Careerism Is Destructive of Public Discourse
Slate Exposes a Huge Pitfall of Modern Journalism
The Supreme Court Runs Up People's Legal Bills
Nationwide Injunctions Are a Problem
A Modest Fourth Amendment Proposal
The Korean War Was a Special Case
The Withrdawal from Afghanistan Is a Triumph of American Democracy
"They Couldn't Make That Movie Now"
Actually Consistently Believing in Science is Tough
A quick response to Mark Joseph Stern
The End of the Eviction Moratorium Is Not the Supreme Court's Fault
The Cost of Cynical Olympics Marketing
Most People Don't Want To Die for "Freedom"
Not Every Situation Is a Vehicle for Personal Expression
Exemptions from Generally Applicable Laws Should Be Hard to Get
People Don't Know as Much as They Think They Do
Liberal American Exceptionalism
The Party Message Machines, Not the Media, Control Political Discourse
What Joe Paterno's Story Tells Us About the Founders
Matt Yglesias Says the Quiet Part Loud
Conservative Sports Fans Don't Hate Athletes
The Modern Joe McCarthy Mindset
Democrats Need To Embrace Sex And Drugs
Why Are There No Female MLB Umpires?
Negotiating in Public Doesn't Work
Unequivocal Condemnation Is Underrated
The Media Is Going To Talk To People You Don't Agree With
Lawyers Don't Have Magical Powers
What the Kentucky Derby Scandal Tells Us About Systemic Racism
Stop Telling Justice Breyer To Retire
Most Prison Sentences Are Way Too Long
Pretrial Detention Is Terrible
The Myth of the Untainted Juror
Language Doesn't Matter Nearly As Much As People Think It Does
The Religious Freedom To Discriminate
Selective Standpoint Epistemology
"How a Bill Becomes a Law" Has Changed
The Supreme Court Isn't Actually All That Conservative
For DC Statehood- But For a Compromise Too
What Can the Legal System Do About Police Violence?
The Federal Arbitration Act Needs an Overhaul
Free Speech Is More Important Than Whataboutism
Losing a War Means Not Being Able To Control What Happens Next
Legal Interpretation Is Hard, and Originalism Doesn't Work
Police Discretion in Traffic Stops in Unavoidable
The Legal System Is Too Expensive for Middle Class People
Congress Should Allow US Courts to Hear International Human Rights Claims
Boycotting the Olympics Would Be Terrible
No, Conservatives Are Not Going to Rule the Constitution Prohibits Abortion
People Who Draw Lines on Maps Are the Problem
Criminal Defense Lawyers Are Just Doing Their Jobs
A Discourse Rule That Applies Only to Criticism of China
Competitors Whose Sports Generate Significant Revenue Should Be Paid
Hiring a Lawyer Isn't Engaging in "Violence"
It's Not Biden's Fault We Don't Have a Coherent Immigration Policy
You Win Civil Rights Struggles By Making Good Arguments That Appeal to People's Morals
Educators Should Be Able To Teach Stuff You Disagree With
We Can't Control Guns. But We Might Control Gun Culture
We Don't Need To Execute the Mass Shooters
We All Read Death of a Salesman, Didn't We?
You Should Be Able To Sue Federal Officers Who Violate the Constitution
The Legal System Is Much Bigger Than a Few High Profile Political Cases
We Need To Pass the Equality Act
Nonbinary People Are Not a Historically Oppressed Group