Thursday Reading: Reactions to 6th Circ's decision & more

• Randy Barnett breaks down the Sixth Circuit's ruling on the constitutionality of Obamacare's individual mandate
  Volokh Conspiracy: Eight Things to Know About Yesterday's Sixth Circuit Ruling
  
  
• Ilya Somin criticizes the idea that courts should grant a "presumption of constitutionality" to congressional and state legislation
  Volokh Conspiracy: (1) The “Presumption of Constitutionality” and the Individual Mandate Cases; (2) The Presumption of Constitutionality Revisited
  
  
• Orin Kerr kind of disagrees(?)
  Volokh Conspiracy: (1) The Individual Mandate and the Presumption of Constitutionality; (2) More on the Presumption of Constitutionality
  
  
• Cato's Ilya Shapiro criticizes the Sixth Circuits approval of Obamacare
  Cato@Liberty: The Sixth Circuit Got It Wrong
  
  
• Down to the Countryside: North Korea's illustrious leader decides university students' time would be better spent elsewhere
  Fox News: North Korea Shuts Down Universities to Send Students to Work
  
  
•  All is not well in the Obama Camp
  National Journal: Nerves Show on Team Obama
  
  
• Becker and Posner on the economic recovery (or lack thereof)

Wednesday Reading: Krug's de-evolution, school as signaling, & more

Welcome to the first of NYU Fed-Soc's daily(?), weekly(?), annual(?) morning read post!  Check this post out throughout the day to find interesting articles on politics, law, and economics.

•  Josh Blackman critiques Justice Thomas' originalist interpretation in the Court's recent video game case
  Josh Blackman's Blog: Justice Thomas, Parental Paternalism, and Originalism at the Wrong Time
  
• Peter Foster traces the (de)evolution of Paul Krugman from a respected economist into a lefty conspiracy theorist
  Financial Post: The Demons of Krugmanomics

• Richard Epstein asks whether America is past its prime and what we can do about it
  Defining Ideas: America Strikes Out

• The guys at EconLog continue a week long debate with Marginal Revolution's Tyler Cowen on whether school is actually good for anything more than signaling

• Reason TV interviews former NYC Mayor Ed Koch on rent control, his sexuality, Governor Cuomo, and more [see above]
  Reason.tv: Interview with Ed Koch

• New York Magazine says that you can thank rich libertarians for the state's recent gay marriage legalization
  NY Mag: You Can Thank a Few Rich Libertarians for Gay Marriage
  
  

Fed-Soc's Updated Bibliography

The national chapter of the Federalist Society has updated its annotated bibliography of Conservative and Libertarian Legal Scholarship.  The bibliography provides a wealth of great resources for Fed-Soc'rs and those interested in conservative or libertarian legal thought.  This incarnation of the bibliography is more expansive than ever before and covers every major area of the law.

Be sure to check it all out here.

HT to Orin Kerr at the Volokh Conspiracy.