Articles
2026
China’s Debt Problem—And Our Own
Law & Liberty, Jan 20, 2026
Can You Trust Mark Meador?
Techdirt, Jan. 20, 2026
2025
OpenAI’s Utopian Folly
City Journal, Oct. 15, 2025
More Thoughts on AI
Policy & Palimpsests, June 19, 2025
AI and the End of the World
Policy & Palimpsests, June 6, 2025
How the Supreme Court Could Save Humphrey’s Executor
The UnPopulist, May 27, 2025
Does the Trump Administration Have ‘Good Cause’ to Skip Notice and Comment?
FedSoc Blog, May 16, 2025
Trump’s Road to Constitutional Perdition
The Bulwark, Apr. 22, 2025
The Constitutional Crisis Is Here
The Bulwark, Mar. 19, 2025
The U.K.’s Alarming Turn Against Digital Privacy
City Journal, Mar. 17, 2025
Will the Supreme Court Face Down Trump or Flinch?
The Bulwark, Mar. 3, 2025
Spam Emails, Spam Lawsuit: The GOP Tries to Break Gmail by Court Order
Techdirt, Feb. 6, 2025
We’re In for a Rude Awakening on Cybersecurity
City Journal, Feb. 6, 2025
Age-Verification Laws Are a Verified Mistake
Law & Liberty, Jan. 9, 2025
Net Neutrality May Finally Be Dead—Good Riddance
City Journal, Jan. 8, 2025
2024
The FCC’s $200 Billion Disaster
Pirate Wires, Dec. 20, 2024
Elon Musk Should Be Shouting About The Florida And Texas Social Media Laws (But Are You Surprised That He’s Not?)
Techdirt, Dec. 4, 2024
Farewell to a Norm-Buster
City Journal, Nov. 12, 2024
The Third Circuit’s Section 230 Decision in Anderson v. TikTok Is Pure Poppycock
Techdirt, Sept. 3, 2024
Saviors of the Climate?
City Journal, Aug. 29, 2024
Keep Crypto Free
City Journal, Jul. 30, 2024
NetChoice and the ‘Big Tech’ Scare
Law & Liberty, Jul. 10, 2024
Enforce Federal Law? Or Stick It to Ajit Pai?
WLF Legal Pulse, May 29, 2024
Lina Khan’s New Club
City Journal, May 16, 2024
Berkeley Eats Its Own
City Journal, Apr. 12, 2024
A Breakdown of the Bizarre Factions Fighting Over the TikTok Ban Bill
The Bulwark, Mar. 25, 2024
Startlingly New (AI)
City Journal, Mar. 7, 2024
God Help Us, but Brett Kavanaugh Could Save the First Amendment
The Daily Beast, Feb. 27, 2024
In SCOTUS NetChoice Cases, Texas’s and Florida’s Worst Enemy Is (Checks Notes) Elon Musk
Techdirt, Feb. 21, 2024
2023
How Congress Learned to Live with Warrantless Surveillance (for Now)
The Bulwark, Dec. 21, 2023
California Senate Bill 54’s ‘Diversity’ Smokescreen
City Journal, Nov. 28, 2023
SpaceX Makes Progress on Second Test of Starship
Reason, Nov. 18, 2023
A Thankfully Doomed Mistake
City Journal, Nov. 8, 2023
A Reagan Judge, the First Amendment, and the Eternal War Against Pornography
Techdirt, Oct. 6, 2023
Republicans Can’t Decide If They Want Online Privacy or Not
The Daily Beast, Sept. 5, 2023
FTC Chair Lina Khan Fails Upward
City Journal, Aug. 17, 2023
So Much for Conservative Judicial Restraint
The Bulwark, Jul. 11, 2023
The Elephant in the Ethernet Port
City Journal, Jun. 1, 2023
Chevron Is Dead, Long Live Chevron
FedSoc Blog, May 10, 2023
Heretical Thoughts on Axon v. FTC
Law & Liberty, May 2, 2023
The Unaccountable Federal Trade Commission
City Journal, Apr. 13, 2023
In Internet Speech Cases, SCOTUS Should Stick Up For Reno v. ACLU
Techdirt, Mar. 28, 2023
Four Things to Watch in Gonzalez v. Google
FedSoc Blog, Mar. 17, 2023
California Regulates the Internet
City Journal, Mar. 7, 2023
No, Chevron Deference Will Not Save the FTC’s Noncompete Ban
Truth on the Market, Feb. 14, 2023
House Republicans Should Heed the Warning of Justice Scalia
The Bulwark, Feb. 9, 2023
The China Syndrome
City Journal, Feb. 1, 2023
If You Believe In Free Speech, The GOP’s "Weaponization" Subcommittee Is Not Your Friend
Techdirt, Jan. 18, 2023 (with Ari Cohn)
Can the Fourth Amendment Survive Digital Surveillance?
The Bulwark, Jan. 18, 2023
2022
The Republican Quest to Break Your Email Account
The Bulwark, Dec. 12, 2022
America, China, and the Spirit of Enterprise
City Journal, Dec. 1, 2022
Section 230 Heads to the Supreme Court
Reason, Nov. 4, 2022
Social Media Transparency Rules, Zauderer Standard Head to Supreme Court
Lawfare, Sept. 27, 2022
Can ‘Sludge’ Kill Societies?
City Journal, Sept. 12, 2022
Lina Khan’s Crusade
City Journal, Jun. 22, 2022
Trumpism on the Bench?
The Bulwark, Jun. 8, 2022
The Quest for a Better Online "Community"
Law & Liberty, May 16, 2022
National Petroleum Refiners v FTC: A Tale of Two Opinions
Truth on the Market, Apr. 27, 2022
Musk’s Free Speech Crusade
City Journal, Apr. 26, 2022
No Legislation Without Representation
Law & Liberty, Apr. 18, 2022
Elon Musk Forces a Free-Speech Reckoning
City Journal, Apr. 17, 2022
Trump’s Judge-Shopping Flop
The Bulwark, Apr. 7, 2022
Reality Comes Knocking
The Bulwark, Mar. 4, 2022
2021 and earlier (selected)
Government Is Not Conservatives’ Social Media Friend
The American Spectator, Dec. 20, 2021
Is Lina Khan Courting a SCOTUS Rebuke?
City Journal, Dec. 2, 2021
The Right’s New Legal Crusade Against Corporate Free Speech
The Bulwark, Nov. 30, 2021
Pride Before the Fall at the FTC?
Law & Liberty, Nov. 2, 2021
Social Media and Common Carriage: Lessons From the Litigation Over Florida’s SB 7072
WLF Legal Backgrounder, Sept. 24, 2021
Why Is The Republican Party Obsessed With Social Media?
Techdirt, Aug. 17, 2021
Rival Wants Regulators to Cripple Elon Musk’s Satellite Project
The Bulwark, Aug. 3, 2021
Facebook Oversight Board: Trump’s Ban from the Platform Was Botched
The Bulwark, May 5, 2021
Justice Thomas’s Misguided Concurrence on Platform Regulation
Lawfare, Apr. 14, 2021 (with Berin Szóka)
Florida History, First Amendment Show DeSantis’ ‘Tech Transparency’ Bill is Doomed
Miami Herald, Mar. 26, 2021 (with Berin Szóka)
Judge’s Rant About Bias Gets Today’s Media Landscape Wrong
The Bulwark, Mar. 24, 2021
Politics, Not Pragmatism, Is Driving Florida Anti-Big Tech Bills
The Daily Caller, Mar. 23, 2021
The Fraught Path to a Privacy Law Businesses Can Live With
WLF Legal Backgrounder, Mar. 12, 2021
No, Florida Can’t Regulate Online Speech
Lawfare, Mar. 12, 2021 (with Berin Szóka)
The Rush to "Fight Back" Against Big Tech is the Wrong Approach to the Wrong Problem
Techdirt, Jan. 27, 2021
Barrett Is Wild Card For Tech Antitrust Cases At High Court
Law360, Oct. 2, 2020
Big Tech and the Parable of the Broken Window
Truth on the Market, Aug. 4, 2020
The Protean Progressive Free Speech Clause
Forbes.com, July 21, 2020
Year One, Then and Now
Law & Liberty, Apr. 30, 2020
There is No Cure for Government Incompetence
Truth on the Market, Mar. 23, 2020
If It Takes History Seriously, The Supreme Court Will Strike Down The CFPB
Forbes.com, Oct. 31, 2019
The Snobbery of Bashing Big Tech
Truth on the Market, Oct. 23, 2019
In Roundup Trials, the Deck Is Stacked Against Science
Forbes.com, Aug. 19, 2019
Can Experts Structure Markets? Don’t Count On It.
Truth on the Market, May 28, 2019
Four Things to Watch in Supreme Court’s Kisor v. Wilkie Case
Forbes.com, May 28, 2019
In Climate Suits, Cities Ask Judges to Start a Primitivist Revolution
Forbes.com, Apr. 11, 2019
The Supreme Court Will Not Save Us
Law & Liberty, Feb. 26, 2019
The Wages of Sin Is Debt
Forbes.com, Feb. 21, 2019
The Judiciary Can Corral The Administrative State, But Only The People Themselves Can Tame It
Forbes.com, Jan. 17, 2019
Artificial Intelligence Will Benefit Us Immensely--If We Don’t Get in the Way
Forbes.com, Dec. 4, 2018
Wake Up, California Millennials: Rent Control Is a Generational Con Game
Forbes.com, Aug. 20, 2018
Europe’s Antitrust Demagogues Shake Down Google
Forbes.com, July 18, 2018
Problems with the California Consumer Privacy Act
Daily Journal, June 26, 2018
Justice Done in AT&T/Time Warner Merger Challenge
Forbes.com, June 19, 2018