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 ...

Political acts can seldom be categorized as being solely decided by either coercion or persuasion, as also tends to be the case with most complicated problems. Both aspects of power tend to mix into a ...

Here's a highly tentative idea that I wanted to flag: As the post on "When Government Urges Private Entities to Restrict Others' Speech" (and the caselaw it cites) reflects, government speech can ...

Democracy is rule by persuasion, but the unpersuasive often try to coerce the unpersuaded. Recent days have provided two illustrations of this tendency, both of them pertaining to labor unions, whose ...

Columbia law Prof. Philip Hamburger has put up a detailed post responding to my earlier argument that courts should focus on coercion in Murthy v. Missouri, the case where two state governments and ...

Doug Badger is a senior fellow in the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation. “Look, we’re the United States of America,” President Joe Biden said, concluding his speech ...

While New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo battle over COVID vaccination strategies, new cases, hospitalizations, and deaths mount. The sooner we get people vaccinated, the quicker ...

In our earlier post, we discussed ethical manipulation in leadership. Here, we delve into ethics and persuasion. Persuasion is an ethical form of influence that leaders use to compel their followers ...