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Johns Hopkins Founder Owned Slaves: Why Does This Matter Today?

By Doug Bandow. American Spectator.

What purpose is served from blaming people today for the failings of their ancestors?

Blog

A First Amendment Win For Pennsylvania Lawyers

By Walter Olson.

A federal judge agrees that a speech code proposing to penalize lawyers for purportedly discriminatory things they say and write violates the First Amendment. 

Multimedia

Tom G. Palmer is featured in the webinar, “The Morality of Capitalism,” hosted by Palabra Pública

Featuring Tom G. Palmer. January 1, 2021.

A Brutal Murder, Freedom of Speech, and Islamism in France

Featuring Flemming Rose. October 28, 2020.

David B. Kopel discusses Denver’s City Council’s conflicting rallies leading to the death of a protestor and other issues on PBS 12’s Colorado Inside Out

Featuring David B. Kopel. October 16, 2020.

Marriage Equality: From Outlaws to In‐​Laws

Featuring William N. Eskridge Jr., Steven G. Calabresi, Maggie Gallagher, & Ilya Shapiro. October 6, 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

More on Civil Rights

Commentary

Johns Hopkins Founder Owned Slaves: Why Does This Matter Today?

By Doug Bandow. American Spectator. December 18, 2020.

Immigration Restrictions and Racial Discrimination Share Similar Roots

By Ilya Somin. The Hill (Online). November 24, 2020.

The 1619 Project: An Autopsy

By Timothy Sandefur. The Dispatch. October 27, 2020.
More Commentary

Blog Posts

A First Amendment Win For Pennsylvania Lawyers

By Walter Olson. December 9, 2020.

Walter Williams, RIP

By David Boaz. December 2, 2020.

The Rights of Women

By David Boaz. August 25, 2020.
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Cato Studies

Black Lives Matter Protests, Social Distancing, and COVID-19

By Dhaval M. Dave, Andrew I. Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Joseph J. Sabia, & Samuel Safford. October 14, 2020.

Discrimination, Migration, and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from World War I

By Andreas Ferrara and Price V. Fishback. August 5, 2020.

Same‐​Sex Couples and the Marital Surplus: The Importance of the Legal Environment

By Daniel S. Hamermesh and Scott Delhommer. July 15, 2020.
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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

Hurchalla v. Lake Point Phase I, LLC

By Lauren C. Regan, Rebecca Chapman, Ilya Shapiro, & Michael Collins. October 10, 2020.

Higginson v. Becerra

By Christopher M. Kiser, Joshua P. Thompson, and Ilya Shapiro. May 5, 2020.

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

By Walter Olson. February 26, 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

Marriage Equality: From Outlaws to In‐​Laws

October 6, 2020. Live Online Book Forum.

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.
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Speeches

Academic Freedom and Free Speech

March 16, 2016

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