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.
Hard to argue.
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.
Thoughts on the relentless fight against our freedom by the Marxists.
…of the rule of law.
If I recall my Prince (the book, not the pop star) correctly, there was some pretty strong advice against using mercenaries. But Vlad may have been too busy offing his enemies to read Machiavelli.
RIP.
I have several of his books on my shelf.
What evidence would it require for you to change your mind, and for you to realize that it is not a crisis, and that we don’t have to destroy the economy in the name of climate?
This is a (semi)serious question, but mostly a note to write a longer essay about science and falsifiability, that I didn’t have time or gumption to write tonight.