Open thread 7/19/22
This is quite a story:
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An overview of Uvalde: Part II
[Part I can be found here. You can find my discussion of the ALERTT report on Uvalde here.] If you’ve been following my posts on Uvalde, you know I’ve been working on a long post (or several posts) about the … Continue reading →
Roundup
Some days there’s just so much news a roundup is in order. (1) The Chinese economy appears threatened right now due to a mortgage crisis: As of July 12, homebuyers in 22 Chinese cities had threatened to stop their mortgage … Continue reading →
Open thread 7/18/22
Those days before air conditioning
It seems a bit like ancient history, doesn’t it? But when I was growing up and for quite a while afterwards, air conditioning was a rare luxury. We didn’t have it in houses, except for the occasional bedroom. We certainly … Continue reading →
We hold these truths to be self-evident: Trump is a lawless authoritarian who tore up the Constitution
Commenter “JFM” writes: I’m very confused when people on the left start, in all media, talking about Trump as “lawless” and “ripping up the Constitution”. Where did he do that? When did he do this? And commenter “Wendy Laubach” adds: … Continue reading →
Jose Alba and assault: update on the NY bodega case
More has been revealed about the incident leading up to the death of Austin Simon at the hands of bodega employee Jose Alba. If you’re not familiar with the story so far, please see this previous post of mine on … Continue reading →
Open thread 7/16/22
The Democrats’ climate agenda is on hold…
…for the moment, courtesy of Joe Manchin. Although Biden may try to muscle it through anyway, with that tried and true method of bypassing the legislature known as “executive action”: President Joe Biden vowed Friday to take “strong executive action” … Continue reading →
Georgetown law professor calls justices who disagree with her “lawless”
That’s persuasive, right? Feldman is emblematic of the decline of legal reasoning and of reasoning as a whole in academic life. Law schools have long been the bastion of the “critical” approach to scholarship and argument, beginning in the late … Continue reading →
The cancellation of Jefferson at Monticello…
…had actually already happened when I was there, around 2008. The docents were already droning on and on about slaves and Sally Hemmings, almost as though those were the main points of Jefferson’s life. This NY Post article describes what’s … Continue reading →