Legal Insurrection AI-Generated Covers for the New Year’s Fantasy Magazine Rack

Legal Insurrection AI-Generated Covers for the New Year’s Fantasy Magazine Rack

The Legal Insurrection/Equal Protection Project Teams took a few moments off during the holiday week to have some fun.

The editors, authors, and contributors used an AI program via the website Cover Stories to generate some fantasy magazine covers.

These covers turn the Legal Insurrection/Equal Protection Project crew into a New Year’s roster of glamorous magazine icons, each one amplifying what we already do on the site into a larger‑than‑life persona. I thought sharing the results would be a fun way to kickstart 2026!

William Jacobson – Litigation, campuses, and Reddit detectives

Professor Jacobson’s Chronicle‑style covers—one with the giant EPP shield and gavel, another as the weary basement Reddit sleuth— showcase both his Legal Insurrection and Equal Protection personas.

As founder and lead voice of Legal Insurrection, and as head of the Equal Protection Project, he regularly tracks legal threats, campus speech issues, and civil rights law; the shield‑and‑gavel image turns that into superhero branding for his litigation and advocacy work. The Vanity Fair version is a nice homage to the class and dignity he brings to his many appearances and interviews.

The basement‑detective version nods to his relentless documentation of campus controversies, where he and the site often connect dots long before institutions admit there was a pattern.

Kemberlee Kaye – From startups to sippy cups

Kemberlee’s Forbes‑inspired “startup drama to sippy cups” image captures her blend of sharp political/business instincts with real‑world domestic sanity checks. She is someone who can pivot from writing about political maneuvering to managing family life without missing a beat. On Legal Insurrection, she’s long been a writer and the Senior Contribution Editor, shepherding coverage on politics, policy, and with touching insights on family life. The cover highlights the fact that she can juggle campaigns, Congress, and car seats all while effectively promoting Legal Insurrection and Equal Protection Project.

Mary Chastain – Skeletor’s emotional intelligence & pop‑culture politics

I must admit, this one had me laugh-out-loud, as I love Mary’s daily inspirational Skeletor tweets! On the GQ‑style Skeletor cover, Mary is in a purple‑trimmed jacket with an oversized villain emblem, embodying the idea that even cartoon bad guys can teach emotional intelligence. That’s a clever exaggeration of her Legal Insurrection work on pop culture, crime, and media narratives, where she often demonstrates with keen insight that these stories are serious indicators of what’s happening in the culture.

Vijeta Uniyal – Foreign Policy keyboard warrior

Vijeta’s “fight antisemitism one tweet at a time” Foreign Policy cover presents him as a digital frontline correspondent, bathed in screens and maps, tablet in hand like a modern press badge. That dovetails with his Legal Insurrection focus on antisemitism, Israel, jihadism, and European politics, where he tracks ideological currents and street‑level movements across borders.

Stacey Matthews – McDonald’s haute couture and American politics

Stacy’s golden McDonald’s dress on the faux Forbes cover is a fun depiction of her witty and successful commentary on U.S. politics, culture clashes, and media hypocrisy. Every word written by “Sister Toldjah” is pure gold.

Katya Sedgwick – Vogue geopolitics & culture

In the Vogue‑style Sephora/geopolitics cover, Katya is framed as the fashion‑world envoy to serious global debates, standing in dramatic lighting with the gravitas of a columnist who knows both aesthetics and ideology. That mirrors her Legal Insurrection contributions on culture, Russia/Ukraine, and the psychology of the West, where she often connects seemingly “soft” cultural shifts to very hard political realities.

Amanda Stulman – Mystery bureaucrat & campus chronicler

On the “mystery bureaucrat holds key to billions” cover, Amanda is styled like a quiet power broker, with a dollar‑bill collar and an oversized key suggesting she alone can unlock the truth behind government cash flows. It fits her work as part of our team well, as she dissects higher‑ed machinery, funding, and institutional double‑speak.

Kristen Faiola – Culinary diplomacy in the culture wars

On the Good Housekeeping mac‑and‑cheese cover, Kristen stands in chef whites with truffled mac on one side and boxed mac on the other, a perfect visual for keeping up with the extremely diverse needs of the team as our social media chef.

Leslie Eastman – Swiss army knife of conservative commentary

Finally, my cover. The “Wired” magazine version hilariously summarizes the detailed, science-based posts on environmental health, pandemics, regulatory shifts that I cover.

I hope our Legal Insurrection/Equal Protection Project friends enjoyed the fantasy magazine review of our team as we head into 2026! Happy New Year.

UPDATES:

Mike LaChance: Dunkin’ Diplomat

Mike has covered higher education and politics for the site since 2012, after years of blogging under his pseudonym to protect his day job in a liberal theater company. The “Dunkin’ Diplomacy” image perfectly blends his trademark political snark with pop‑culture savvy.

Joelle Webb: Bubbly Master of Political Philosophy

Joelle Webb is a Gen Z Legal Insurrection Foundation researcher whose independently published book Conserving Truth: A Brief History of Western Conservatism offers an accessible academic guide to conservative principles for young adults navigating progressive campuses. In the fantasy magazine rack, her Forbes feature profiles how she manages to champion those ideas in lectures, group chats, and dorm debates while somehow keeping both her social circle and her sense of humor intact.

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