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Marine Corps Is Right to Eliminate Confederate Paraphernalia

By Doug Bandow. American Spectator (Online).

And we’re right to thoughtfully reexamine what our memorials say about our country.

Commentary

Minnesota Bids to Segregate its Child‐​Welfare Agencies

By Walter Olson. Wall Street Journal.

No matter what problems they solve, laws granting different rights to different races are unconstitutional.

Multimedia

Ilya Shapiro’s comments on the upcoming hate crime bills are read on SuperTalk Mississippi’s The JT Show

Featuring Ilya Shapiro. March 10, 2020.

Individuality and Intersectionality

Featuring Anthony Comegna and Caleb O. Brown. February 15, 2020.

Robert A. Levy discusses fundamental rights on The Bob Harden Show

Featuring Robert A. Levy. February 12, 2020.

Robert A. Levy discusses the constitution and gay marriage on The Bob Harden Show

Featuring Robert A. Levy. January 29, 2020.
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Books

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Deep Commitments

September 2017
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The Tyranny of Silence

November 2014
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Religious Liberties for Corporations?: Hobby Lobby, the Affordable Care Act, and the Constitution

November 2014
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You Can’t Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws

December 2003
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The Rule of Law in the Wake of Clinton

December 1999
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Reclaiming the Mainstream

March 1992

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Commentary

Marine Corps Is Right to Eliminate Confederate Paraphernalia

By Doug Bandow. American Spectator (Online). March 8, 2020.

Minnesota Bids to Segregate its Child‐​Welfare Agencies

By Walter Olson. Wall Street Journal. February 28, 2020.

John Lewis, Libertarian Hero

By Michael F. Cannon. January 17, 2020.
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Blog Posts

Back To the Battlefront on Religious Exemptions and Discrimination Law

By Walter Olson. February 24, 2020.

Graphic Designers Aren’t State Marriage Bureaus, So Shouldn’t Be Forced to Support Same‐​Sex Weddings

By Ilya Shapiro and James Knight. January 30, 2020.

ADA: Lawyers Sue Retailers for Not Putting Braille on Gift Cards

By Walter Olson. January 28, 2020.
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Cato Studies

U.S. Citizens Targeted by ICE: U.S. Citizens Targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Texas

By David J. Bier. August 29, 2018.

The Nordic Glass Ceiling

By Nima Sanandaji. March 8, 2018.

The State of Free Speech and Tolerance in America

By Emily Ekins. October 31, 2017.
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Articles

Federal Appeals Court Should Reject Total Immunity for Prosecutors

By Jay Schweikert. New York Law Journal. April 25, 2018.

Can a Surfeit of Statutes “Accommodate” Religious Liberty?

By Roger Pilon. Deep Commitments: The Past, Present, and and Future of Religious Liberty. 2017.

Public Schooling and Religious Equality Cannot Coexist

By Neal McCluskey. Deep Commitments: The Past, Present, and and Future of Religious Liberty. 2017.
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Public Filings

Statement for the Record RE: “The Administration’s Religious Liberty Assault on LGBTQ Rights”

By Walter Olson. February 26, 2020.

303 Creative LLC v. Elenis

By Ilya Shapiro, Eugene Volokh, and James Knight. January 29, 2020.

Institute for Free Speech v. Becerra

By Ilya Shapiro, Trevor Burrus, and James Knight. January 21, 2020.
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Cato Reviews & Journals

The New Gulag Archipelago

By Nury Turkel. March/​April 2019.

Adoption and the Anti‐​discrimination Wars

September/​October 2018.

Regulation of Political Apparel in Polling Places: Why the Supreme Court’s Mansky Opinion Did Not Go Far Enough

By Rodney A. Smolla. 2017–2018.
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Events

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

September 26, 2019. Book Forum.

America’s Border Wars: Inside the Constitution‐​free Zone

February 4, 2019. Policy Forum.

The New Gulag Archipelago: How China “Reeducates” the Uyghurs and Why the World Should Be Alarmed

November 28, 2018. Policy Forum.
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Speeches

Academic Freedom and Free Speech

March 16, 2016

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