Gabe Levine

Legal historian and fellow @policyintegrity, posting in a personal capacity

[Gabe Levine @gllevine]

@PhilWMagness @washingtonpost odd to add such an atextual qualifier, especially when the text itself is about overcoming a sort of parochialism. and in any event you seem to accept that Schmitt has become influential in English, however long it took.

[Gabe Levine @gllevine]

This otherwise-excellent blog post doesn’t mention a central dynamic in Chiles: the majority’s sense that the relevant professions have been captured, and hence that the Colorado law was in substance (if not in form) suppressing public discourse.

[Yale Law School @YaleLawSch]

Professionals have largely remained dependable sources of good information, according to Professor Robert Post and Visiting Professor Claudia E. Haupt.

But a Supreme Court decision threatens that notion, they write in a new essay.
https://t.co/VabLNsjPa7

[Gabe Levine @gllevine]

Check it out here: https://t.co/xN3ApnLqRP

[Gabe Levine @gllevine]

Manifold Vintage, my amazing historian-turned-clothing-expert wife’s store, has just released its Spring/Summer 2026 collection.

[Princeton University @Princeton]

Jan-Werner Müller, a renowned scholar in democratic theory and the history of political thought, has been named the Class of 1943 University Professor of Politics. University Professorships are Princeton’s highest honor for faculty: https://t.co/XJhq5ax64c

A member of the Princeton faculty since 2005, Müller serves as director of the Political Philosophy Program at Princeton. He is the founding director of the Academic Freedom Initiative at Princeton and also founding director of the Forum for the History of Political Thought, both hosted through the University Center for Human Values. Beyond classic topics in political theory, Müller’s research interests span from the relationship between architecture and politics to the normative implications of structural transformations of the public sphere.

[Gabe Levine @gllevine]

@EWess92 @RandyEBarnett @WSJ Originalists do not agree, as Barnett’s originalist co-author Lawrence Solum has recognized. Please stop misrepresenting scholarship for purposes of your advocacy.

[Gabe Levine @gllevine]

https://t.co/Zw7NmNG63u

[Gabe Levine @gllevine]

Great post by @kewhittington

[Gabe Levine @gllevine]

@EWess92 You are misrepresenting the post. The authors do not concede the legal argument; they dismiss its relevance. And Pranjall Drall is not a professor.

[Gabe Levine @gllevine]

@StephenESachs You’ve never taught Fed Courts??

[SamuelGoldman @SWGoldman]

Iggy Pop makes a stronger case for great books that most professors are able to give.

[Rᴏʙᴇʀᴛ L. Tsᴀɪ @robertltsai]

Benhabib on Habermas: “Not only was the task of the philosopher, ‘sapere aude,’ to think for oneself, but the task of critique was to think through the times in which one lived… Habermas is the heir of this tradition.” https://t.co/zINqYOQIYJ

[Gabe Levine @gllevine]

https://t.co/eTyXIZFbqo

[Gabe Levine @gllevine]

Highly recommend @JakeAnbinder’s great piece in @TheAtlantic on Paul Ehrlich, which succinctly shows how scarcity fears drive baleful trends on left and right, while still showing why Ehrlich’s views seemed plausible. (Link below)

[Gabe Levine @gllevine]

@RichardMRe The voters know best: the MQD rationale only got three votes!

[Gabe Levine @gllevine]

Justice Gorsuch: “Only the written word is the law”

Also Justice Gorsuch: the major questions doctrine is extratextual and don’t you forget it.

[Gabe Levine @gllevine]

@ProfSchleich @WilliamBaude @proffontana @RickPildes @RickHills2 @CSElmendorf I don’t dispute the bottom line, but it’s incongruous that the paper foregrounds a columnist’s criticisms of the Brown *opinion.* That suggests that opinions’ significance varies with politics and media. Perhaps the paper reflects our current polarization and fragmentation?

[Gabe Levine @gllevine]

@OrinKerr I have found Claude Opus strikingly good at reasoning in light of broadly shared background knowledge. Stating specific facts about the world? Not so much.

[Gabe Levine @gllevine]

Adding this to my daily lexicon