HEATH NEWMAN—The reported Netflix-Warner Bros. merger has drawn criticism from industry observers who warn that the deal could accelerate the decline of traditional cinema. On December 5, 2025, Netflix announced that it acquired Warner Bros. for a total enterprise value of $82.7 billion, which made for something less than happy holidays for Hollywood. Along with […]
JACKIE MACIA—Professor Bernard Harcourt, a distinguished critical theorist, legal advocate, and professor at Columbia Law School, bridges the gap between abstract political theory and real-life experiences during a constitutional crisis. He frames the current political climate as an “apex” in a historical cycle of “counter-revolutionary movements.” Professor Harcourt begins his lecture with a reflection of […]
TANIA GARCIA-SOLIS—Professor Sanford Levinson of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law began writing about a then-new Constitutional Convention forty years ago. Originally, the idea was a bit of a lark, a fun intellectual exercise imagining what a modern Convention might look like. But over the years, Levinson has come to seriously advocate […]
VALERIE RODRIGUEZ—Professor Christopher Mirasola examines how, despite its long tradition of hesitancy to deploy the military domestically, the United States has become a place where presidents can send military personnel into U.S. cities at their own discretion. He argues that today’s controversial deployments are not solely the product of one administration’s overreach but are also […]
JAKE ROSENBERG—The release of OpenAI’s Sora 2 marks a new era in artificial intelligence capabilities. Sora offers a text-to-video model that is capable of transforming short written prompts into realistic and sometimes eerily convincing videos. While the technology has almost limitless creative potential, it also carries serious legal implications for privacy, likeness, and intellectual property […]
