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Ilya Somin

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🔮 But I have a few additions and caveats that I will append after quoting a few key passages from Dan's post.

2026-10-30 · assertive framing · A Libertarian Perspective on the 2026 Election

🔮 Some of those who vote for the "wrong" Dan Sullivan might rank the "right" one second.

2026-10-29 · assertive framing · Creating Voter Confusion About Candidates' Names is Bad - But Exploiting Voter Ignorance About Policy Issues is a Much Bigger Problem

🔮 It also adopts a properly restrictive definition of "rebellion" (which is one of the conditions that might justify federalization of the National Guard).

2026-10-26 · assertive framing · Ninth Circuit Rules Trump Illegally Federalized National Guard in Los Angeles

🔮 Today, the Trump Justice Department filed a federal lawsuit seeking to block Alaska Senate election results on the grounds they might be influenced by voter "confusion" between incumbent Republican Senator Dan S. Sullivan and a separate Republican candidate with a very similar name (Dan L. Sullivan).

2026-10-23 · assertive framing · Trump Sues to Block Alaska Senate Election Results Because of Potential Voter "Confusion"

🔮 And I think he actually agrees with me more than the framing of his post might suggest.

2026-10-17 · assertive framing · Who Should Defend Democracy?

🔮 I would like to thank Matt for his interesting and insightful response.

2026-10-17 · assertive framing · Libertarianism and Democracy Revisited - A Rejoinder to Matt Zwolinski

🔮 [I]t seems to me that those who are fully onboard the expansion-or-bust train should have to do more than simply assert that having four new Democratic appointees on the Court in 2029 would be a self-evidently "good" thing.

2026-10-16 · mixed framing · Steve Vladeck's "Hard Questions About Court Expansion"

🔮 The court ruled that federal law does not preempt these policies, and that if if it did, there would be a violation of the anti-commandeering requirements of the Tenth Amendment: Even were the Court to find that the United States has standing and the challenged provisions are preempted—both answered in the negative above—United States' claims would still fail because the anticommandeering doctrine of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States precludes relief.

2026-10-16 · mixed framing · Trump Loses Yet Another Sanctuary City Case - this Time Against New York City

🔮 But some would like to revive it.

2026-10-15 · assertive framing · Fusionism and its Limits

🔮 I wish there was something I could say to ease the continuing pain of the victims of the attack and their families.

2026-10-07 · assertive framing · Compendium of Writings on the October 7 War and Related Issues

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Other contributors include prominent scholars and commentators, such as VC co-blogger Jonathan Adler (William and Mary), Randall Kennedy (Harvard), Samuel Moyn (Yale), Andrew McCarthy (National Review), Molly Reynolds (Brookings Institution), Rick Hasen, John McGinnis (Northwestern), Julia Azari, Aziz Huq (Chicago), Robert George (Princeton), and many more.

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🔮 Other contributors include prominent scholars and commentators, such as VC co-blogger Jonathan Adler (William and Mary), Randall Kennedy (Harvard), Samuel Moyn (Yale), Andrew McCarthy (National Review), Molly Reynolds (Brookings Institution), Rick Hasen, John McGinnis (Northwestern), Julia Azari, Aziz Huq (Chicago), Robert George (Princeton), and many more.

2026-09-15 · Reason

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Democracy's Challenges: 100 Ideas is a new book published by New York University Press, and edited by Robert Bauer, Samuel Issacharoff, Richard Pildes, and Rosa Po. asserted

Challenges → publish → Bauer

It includes 100 short chapters on how to improve American democracy, written by experts from a variety of disciplines, and representing a wide range of views. asserted

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You can download it here. asserted

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contributors → include → Adler

My own contribution is "Strengthen Democracy by Empowering People to Vote with their Feet." asserted

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