Josh Appel

At Liberty Fund conferences, participants engage in a conversation using a queue system. Sometimes, conferences will use a “short queue” that allows for very brief comments that qualify, contextualize, or expand on a point made in the discussion. We’re pleased to roll out our own “short queue” for Law & Liberty, publishing brief comments from our readers, writers, and editors.

In 2014, when sports betting was still banned in 49 states, National Basketball Association commissioner Adam Silver wrote that “sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated.” Four years later, the Supreme Court struck down the federal law keeping sports betting illegal. Since then, 39 states have legalized. Last week, the NBA effectively conceded that Silver was wrong.

Three years after Hamas’s massacre of more than 1,000 people, extremists gather to celebrate the terror group’s “martyrs.” / Public Safety, Education, Politics and Law / Eye on the News / Public Safety, Education, Politics and Law Typically, an anniversary commemorates a past event that occurred on that day. In the case of heinous episodes, the victims are remembered and the story is retold. Few anniversaries, if any, are used to indict the victims of the crime itself.