Fiddlers, Drunkards, Marijuana, and the Second Amendment

Second Amendment Roundup: Gun Ban for Pot Users Unconstitutional

Supreme Court Makes It Clear There Is No Drug Exception to the Second Amendment

Supreme Court Rules Government Cannot Bar Marijuana Users From Owning Guns

Was Brexit Inevitable?

Trauma creep

Open Thread

Thirty-seven paintings, 15 children, 43 years, and almost no paper trail: Vermeer is known to us only through crumbs and scraps

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Elon Musk and the Glory of Liberal Democracy

Open Thread

Second Amendment Roundup: Arms and Accoutrements

Colorado Becomes Second State To Create Right to an Attorney When Police Seize Your Property

Today in Supreme Court History: June 15, 1804

Today in Supreme Court History: June 14, 1810

Toni Morrison believed that racial blackness and whiteness and redness — potent though they may be — are just that: stories 

Plagiarism: Nabokov called it unconscious. Dylan told his accusers to rot in hell. Both had a point

Open Thread

MIT’s Initiative for New Manufacturing builds momentum

AI may be sycophantic, but that is just one expression of its structural bias toward familiarity and averageness 

The Renaissance was a golden age invented by people who believed they were living through a dark one