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The Volokh Conspiracy Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent Today in Supreme Court History: March 19, 1891 3/19/1891: Chief Justice Earl Warren's birthday. Mostly law professors | Sometimes contrarian | Often libertarian | Always independent 3/19/1891: Chief Justice Earl Warren's birthday. Help Reason push back with more of the fact-based reporting w...
The primary source here is a promotional blurb designed to elicit donations to Reason magazine. The structure immediately signals a tactic of “bait and switch” – starting with a seemingly neutral historical detail (Warren’s birthday) to subtly frame the reader within a particular intellectual space (libertarian law professors) before deploying a forceful call to action. The repeated framing of the media as “misleading” subtly leverages the common complaint of those on the right, appealing to a p...