Since early December, the end of my 20-year career teaching at Harvard has been the subject of articles, op-eds, tweets from a billionaire, and even a congressional hearing. I have become a poster child…
By Carole Hooven | January 17, 2024
“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.” This timeless wisdom was articulated by Edmund Burke, a famous philosopher, member of the House of Commons…
By Benjamin Zycher | January 17, 2024
On January 17, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is scheduled to report on its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet. If it proceeds, broadband internet access…
By Bronwyn Howell | January 17, 2024
Chief Justice John Roberts’s annual year-end reports often examine timely issues facing the federal judiciary, connecting them with historical analogs. For instance, his 2022 report addressed escalating threats of violence directed at jurists––most prominently, one targeting…
By Clay Calvert | January 16, 2024
“What about the kids?” plays an outsized role in the short history of Internet law. From the Communications Decency Act to the Child Online Protection Act, California’s violent video game…
By Daniel Lyons | January 11, 2024
This two-part series examines the arguments in Murthy v. Missouri that Solicitor General Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar made on behalf of the federal government in her brief with the US Supreme Court. The first post provided background on Murthy (formerly Missouri v. Biden)…
By Clay Calvert | January 10, 2024
Key Points Read the PDF. Congress created the federal Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program, a prominent feature of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA),1 to usher areas without…
By Mark Jamison | January 9, 2024
On October 24, 2023, AEI hosted a panel to discuss a case facing Meta’s Oversight Board, which concerns an altered video posted by a Facebook user of President Joe Biden. The video…
By Shane Tews | January 9, 2024
The US Supreme Court crept closer last month to resolving the jawboning case of Murthy v. Missouri when Solicitor General Elizabeth Barchas Prelogar filed her opening brief in this politically divisive battle over free speech and informal government censorship. She explained why…
By Clay Calvert | January 8, 2024
William McKinley won the presidency under the banner of the “Full Diner Pail” for workers allegedly underpinned by protection and high tariffs. Louis Brandeis, by contrast, was a free trader…
By Claude Barfield | January 5, 2024
Imagine two companies in the same business––generating and delivering information to consumers. One has done it for more than 170 years, the other––founded in 2015––for about 15 months. The older company…
By Clay Calvert | January 3, 2024
There is a certain class of book, the members of which have the ambivalent honor of being remembered for encapsulating the era in which they were written. Such books typically…
By M. Anthony Mills | January 2, 2024
Senator Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) has failed in his pursuit of a final approval of the Mountain Valley pipeline from northwestern West Virginia to southern Virginia, as the Senate refused even to give majority support…
By Benjamin Zycher | December 23, 2023
Last month, President Joe Biden issued an executive order on artificial intelligence. Among the longest in recent decades and encompassing directives to dozens of federal agencies and certain companies, the order is…
By M. Anthony Mills | November 20, 2023
The Covid-19 pandemic was a disaster. Over a million Americans died—many in isolation in hospitals and nursing homes, far from their friends and family—and millions more became seriously sick, lost…
By Brian J. Miller | M. Anthony Mills | November 6, 2023