Thoughts from Gail Heriot and Glenn Reynolds. And some reactions from Manhattan Institute scholars.
[Update a while later]
Clarence Thomas versus affirmative-action hire Ketanji Brown Jackson.
[Friday-morning update]
Jackson’s dissent is an argument for institutional racism. And she wasn’t happy with Thomas.
[Late-morning update]
Sorry, link is fixed on the institutional-racism thing.
Assif Siddiqui says that we need new ways to think about it: “We need to let go of our nostalgia for Apollo and move on and work with different models to the old 1960s space races.”
I’ve been saying this for years.
An unofficial assessment from a submarine captain.
Rickover built a hell of an underwater navy, but basing the nuclear-power industry on submarine designs has been a mess.
Stephen Clark has moved over to Ars Technica to help Eric Berger cover the increasingly busy space industry. He has the latest on plans for the next Starship attempt.
…is a symptom of deep cultural rot.
Ramaswamy is a pretty articulate guy.
Thoughts on the relentless fight against our freedom by the Marxists.
They came after the kids.
Is higher ed in a death spiral?
If so, history will record that it was a suicide.
Now Mars Sample Return threatens the planetary science budget.
I agree that JPL should be soliciting bids from contractors.
Thoughts on the complexity of modern technology.