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.
…goes much deeper than Merrick Garland.
Though, as noted there, that doesn’t mean that he shouldn’t be impeached. He clearly lied to Congress.
[Update a few minutes later]
The NYT confirms the story, though it buries it deep.
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.
I do this, but not to lose weight. I generally only eat once a day, in the evening.
CBS is going after Hunter and Garland. Is the dam about to break?
The correlation is strong. Perhaps leftism could be considered a form of mental illness.